Religious Quotes

The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows

Religious insights and values are just as important today as they were 50 or 100 years ago.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.

The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking. I mean: might get people killed.

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.

The mysterious is always attractive. People will always follow a vail.

Our feelings are real and they are powerful, but they are not more powerful than God and truth.

When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.

For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Today, the media handle information as if it was a religious artefact.

First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.

Catholics and Protestants are fighting with one another... while the enemy of Aryan humanity and all Christendom is laughing up his sleeve.

At the heart of racism is the religious assertion that God made a creative mistake when He brought some people into being

Isn't that why we're put on this earth to begin with, to make it a better place? It's not a religious quest; it's a humanitarian one.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.

Do not disdain the commandment to love, for through it you become a son of God, and when you break it, you become a son of Gehenna.

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises.

No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.

I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses.

Better is not good enough; the best is yet to come!

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

Comparative religion is an admirable recipe for making people comparatively religious.

Many of us are hunting mice - while lions devour the land.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

But it's God who gives us the ability to do things, even to gain wealth; and we must remember that what we do is only successful when we do it - His Way.

Only recently has part of America challenged the long-held assumption that America is a Christian nation. Most citizens do not recognize just how quickly we have moved in an anti-Christian direction.

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

Religious faith obscures uncertainty where uncertainty . . . exists, allowing the unknown, the implausible, and the . . . false to achieve primacy over the facts.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.