Religious Quotes

You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I have found saintliness in avowed atheists.

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of that. I don't like that idea. I think all extremism is suspect.

The Bible contains some of the most sublime passages in English literature, but is also full of contradictions, inconsistencies, and absurdities.

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

I ... [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

Why has a religious turn of mind always a tendency to narrow and harden the heart?

Laughter is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness.

When we submit to God's plans, we can trust our desires. Our assignment is found at the intersection of God's plan and our pleasures.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

I know of no condition worse than that of the man who has little or no light on the supreme religious questions, and who at the same time is making no effort to come to the light.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

It is too late in the day for men of sincerity to pretend they believe in the Platonic mysticisms that three are one, and one is three; and yet that the one is not three, and the three are not one.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.

How can our leaders be so hypersensitive to the most microscopic of perceived anti-Jewish slurs, yet so entirely indifferent to flagrant and vicious anti-Christian insults?

I feel Jewish in the sense of culturally Jewish, I suppose the way Bernie Sanders feels Jewish, but not Jewish in a religious sense.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

We are saved to worship God. All that Christ has done in the past and all that He is doing now leads to this one end.

The aversion to lying is often a hidden ambition to render our words credible and weighty, and to attach a religious aspect to our conversation.

Change can be accomplished most of all through the power of prayer, because with God all things are possible.

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

A Christian who is not a revolutionary today isn't a Christian

I've always been a religious guy, but not overly religious. I've always believed in God and Jesus. I pray.

The critical question is how a religious tradition is interpreted. Is it interpreted in ways that are pro-human rights or in ways that are a throwback to the Dark Ages?

America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.

I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them.

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them.

There are no part-time Christians.

I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did.

In Europe, anti-Americanism is much more a hobgoblin of the political, cultural, and religious elites.

Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light.

If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them.

Children of men! the unseen Power, whose eye Forever doth accompany mankind, Hath look'd on no religion scornfully That men did ever find.

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

There are many different rivers that lead into despair: there's poverty; there's political repression; there's gender apartheid - there's a sense of culture loss; there's religious fanaticism.

War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.

All religious expression is symbolism.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education