Religious Quotes

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

This nation under God

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nothing is perfect in God's perfect plan.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion.

The religious world is but a reflex of the real world.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

An atheist is as religious as a theist.

We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people

Hispanic values are conservative values. Hispanics are highly religious, they’re very strongly pro-traditional family... not only pro-family, but also pro-life. They are highly patriotic.

Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

Freedom of religion has been replaced by freedom from religion.

A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.

An Associated Press report by Chicago-based reporter Sharon Cohen in May 1993 examined Christian fundamentalists and concluded that they were prone to 'riots, terrorism - and death.'

The civilization of cities is breeding a new race of monks who have none of the original religious drive towards chastity, but are just incapable of facing the responsibilities of marriage.

My principles in respect of religious interest are two,--one is, that the Church shall not meddle with politics, and the government shall not meddle with religion.

Religious war at its simplest is killing each other over who has the best imaginary friend.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

I don't know whether any religious leader would say that we must ultimately win, because we're on God's side. If they do say that, it's bad religion.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

It is not the legitimate province of the Legislature to determine which religion is true, or what false. Our government is a civil, and not a religious institution.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

It doesn't hurt my feeling when I get vilified by fundamentalist religious people. I've actually made comedy out of it. I've made light of that.