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Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after they're dead.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.