Religious Quotes

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

The supreme religious test of our social order is the hideous commerce of prostitution.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?

You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.

...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes.

Is religion a force for good? The evidence of history and the evidence of current events cast doubt on the truism.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

Tobacco and religious organisations.

Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source.

With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.

Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.

The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

We do not need to prove religion to [people], but to show them that they are religious.

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...their homes also should be razed and destroyed.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Never in the world does hatred cease by hatred; hatred ceases by love.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that you do.

God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.

Muslim immigrants like himself encounter prejudice here [in U.S.] but also find political and religious freedom.

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future.

I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.