Religious Quotes

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Why do I feel you hear these prayers of mine, when so many ought to be ahead of me in line?

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

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.

It is better to pray with good will for our neighbor, rather than to denounce him for every sin.

I'm more spiritual than I am religious. I don't go to church; I go to the beach.

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

The ultimate goal of the anti-religious elites is to transform America into a completely secular nation, a nation that is legally and culturally biased against Christianity.

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean - make sure they know what they mean!

Over and over, expanding scientific knowledge has shown religious claims to be false.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going.

Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong.

They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the loving to associate with eternal love.

I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw.

There is enough Christianity in our country's history to make it a significant component of our heritage and identity.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon.

Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases.

This nation under God

You've been acting like Jesus owes you a favor, but he's a little smart for you to fool.

I am busily engaged in study of the Bible.

You got your God and so do I.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

Jesus, he meets you where you are. Jesus, he heals your secret scars.

To them belong, not only the truly great statesmen, but all other great reformers as well. Beside Frederick the Great stands Martin Luther as well as Richard Wagner.

I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other

In nearly all the matters in which the Pan-German movement was wanting, the attitude of the Christian Social Party was correct and well-planned.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense.

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Everyone who chooses to live in Europe must accept the basic values. This includes the rule of law as well as equality of men and women and non-discrimination against religious and other minorities.