Religious Quotes

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

We will see the day when we live on what we produce.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

Man may live and man may die searching for the question why. But if he tries to rule the sky, he must fall.

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

What good is religious liberty if it can only be practiced behind stained-glass windows on Sunday?

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

We're living through an age of irrationality and religious "fervor" I would call it religious idiocy. It's exhausting to year after year be on the receiving end of this demagoguery.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?

Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole, both inwardly and outwardly.

Christianity is the only true and perfect religion.

Fascism is a religious conception in which man is seen in his immanent relationship with a superior law and with an objective Will that transcends the particular individual.

Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.

The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men.

How powerful prayer is! May we never lose the courage to say: Lord, give us your peace.

Religious faith to W. H. Bragg was the willingness to stake his all on the hypothesis that Christ was right, and test it by a lifetime's experiment in charity.

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

It is still an act of academic heresy to regard Egypt as the cradle of civilization and originator of Jewish and Christian religious traditions.

Picturing things, taking a view, is what makes us human; art is making sense and giving shape to that sense. It is like the religious search for God.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

A fanatic, either, religious or political, is the subject of strong delusions.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

Myself, I have never seen a bumper sticker saying " Hate if you Love Jesus ", but I sometimes wonder why not. It would be a good slogan for the religious Right.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

Who knows if to live is to be dead, and to be dead, to live? And we really, it may be, are dead; in fact I once heard sages say that we are now dead, and the body is our tomb.

True faith is trusting the sovereign God even when we don't understand.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

I have a real aversion to ghosts because I don't believe in them. I think ghosts are actually a religious concept, because it means you believe in an afterlife. And I don't.

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