Religious Quotes

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.

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

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

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?

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.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

The same sun that melts the butter hardens the clay.

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

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.

God is able to do anything. All things are possible with Him, but we must not quit praying.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period

But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Fear not little flock; do good; let earth and hell combine against you, for if ye are built upon my rock, they cannot prevail. . .Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.

I'm a very religious person.

The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

God interrupt whatever we are doing so that we can join You in what You're doing

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.

I caught the preacher making love to Sister Mary Lou. God's gonna getcha for that.

I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

If religion does not make us better people, it will make us very much worse. And of all the bad men who have lived, the religious "bad man" is the worst of all.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

We like to talk about having the faith to be healed - what about the faith to be sick?.

The truth is a lot easier to see when you stop assuming you already have it.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

I'm not Christian, but I'm religious. I believe in a higher God and beings and spirits.

The God of the Bible is a moral monstrosity.

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God.

Prayer is a path where there is none.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets?