Religious Quotes

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that's the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up - either religious or social laws - become meaningless.

I really had no religious upbringing, which is unusual. But I think it saved me, because when I found the theory that I wanted to follow, I did not have anything to unlearn.

I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

Religious people today are courts and juries. When it comes down to it, Jesus died on the cross so that we could learn to love others like we love ourselves, not judge them or persecute them.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

On the last day, Jesus will look us over not for medals, diplomas, or honors, but for scars.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend to be noticeably silly.

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I just pray. And I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion, when I was about 6 or 7.

One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time.

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

The more we read God’s truths and let truth fill our minds, the less time we’ll spend contemplating untruths.

Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.

The story of the betrayal of Jesus by Judas gave a moral and religious rationale to anti-Jewish sentiment, and that's what made it persistent and vicious.

I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism.

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue. That's where you see the demonization of people who stand on their beliefs.

Hostility to religion is having an effect. In 1963, the number of Americans who said that they believed the Bible is literally true was 65%. Today, the number has dropped to 32%.

If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.

Before, by yourself, you couldn't. Now, you've turned to our Lady, and with her, how easy!

Removing religious symbols from public places is not neutrality. On the contrary, it sends a highly negative message - that religion is something shameful, embarrassing, or at best strictly private.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together.

Nothing harms or destroys us but the wrong use of that liberty of choice which God has entrusted to us.

There are wars, there's pestilence, there are plagues, there is corruption in religious circles, corruption in the government, when was it not?

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

I love all religions, but I am in love with my own.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"