Religious Quotes

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

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

Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

Church on time, makes me party.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

I got my own way of praying.

A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

Religious education is only valuable intellectually, if the child is educated in a religion versus [just] about a religion. I don't believe you can have both.

Religious people ... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Human rights and individual liberties, including religious freedom, will be at the heart of the new Iraq.

The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed

Quran says do not abuse others' gods, they will abuse Allah. But most people do not believe in this... they feel their way is the only right one. This is to maintain religious hegemony.

We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

thought I was doing two things. One is inquiring into the phenomenon of revelation, if you are not a religious person. But, clearly, it's a sincere phenomenon.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

Remember this: Beliefs divide, values unite. When we go to the values that underlie so many religious beliefs, they unite us.

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

Many journalists seem to desire 'liberation' from Christian roots.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.

If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.

Picking up our Bibles, we should give God our full attention, withhold our opinion until we understand what He is saying, listen without interrupting, and respond with understanding and obedience.

But evil has been around since the Garden of Eden, and God's plan for victory was designed before the world began. The Bible tells us to fear no evil.

The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.

No man is truly free who is in financial bondage. 'Think what you do when you run in debt', said Benjamin Franklin, 'you give another power over your liberty.'

We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.

I should have no compassion on these witches; I should burn them all.

The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.