Religious Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 sooner we learn feelings are fickle, the better off we are.

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.

When we see death, we see disaster. When Jesus sees death, he sees deliverance!

It's kind of spooky when you are caught talking to God everybody thinks you're nuts. They used to call you a prophet.

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I do think it is very important that the religious communities do try to bring their teachings and their insights to bear on the stem cell debate and on the debate about genetic engineering.

Secular Humanism is opposed to other religions; it actively rejects, excludes, and attempts to eliminate traditional theism from meaningful participation in the American culture.

Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.

The result of your fifty or sixty years of religious reading in the four words: 'Be just and good,' is that in which all our enquiries must end.

The Christian should take nothing short of Christ for his model.

To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.

There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy.

It is not woman who claims the highest in man. It is a man's own religious soul that drives him on beyond women, to his supreme activity. For his highest, man is responsible to God alone.

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

While GOP elites say they're shocked, shocked, by [Donald] Trump's religious bigotry, this is far from the first time Islamophobia has bubbled up in their party.

Lord, No one but you and I understands what faithfulness is. Do not let me die until, for them, all danger is driven away.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

We should never intentionally offend, but if you follow Jesus, you will offend religious people.

They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.

Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

Your job on Earth, therefore, is not to learn (because you already know), but to remember Who You Are. And to remember who everyone else is.

We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family was very religious, and I really experienced God.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so.

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.

On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.

The Bible is literature, not dogma.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

When the responses elicited by the Epic of Evolution are gathered together several religious principles emerge that I can believe, serve as a framework for a global Ethos.

So, according to the religious, you can only be good if you're scared of the consequences of being bad? Strange, I thought people were good because they care about each other?

The most damaging forms of intolerance are connected with religious, racial and political differences of opinion.

The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.