Religious Quotes

Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.

Tolerance and freedom of thought are the veritable antidotes to religious fanaticism.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

Learning is a friend on the journey; a wife in the house; medicine in sickness; and religious merit is the only friend after death.

Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Indifference towards those in need is not acceptable for a Christian.

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.

I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.

I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to defend life for my entire career.

When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism!

We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.

I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Christianity is a pestilent superstition.

You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed.

Whoever has known the love of God loves the whole world and never murmurs against his fate, for the burden of sorrow for the sake of God gains eternal joy.

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

Every once in a while I have this thought, we've got to piss off the religious people. How are we going to do that?

The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.

God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.

I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.

Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

You are God's child. His creation. Destined for heaven. You are a part of his family.

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

I can think of no greater disaster to this country than to have the voters of it divide upon religious lines.

Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext.

If Jesus was hung, would we pray to a rope?

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews.

Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.

I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.