Religious Quotes

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

Looking deeper into African way of life, it wasn't religious; it was spiritual. When you go into spiritualism, spiritualism will teach you about virtues, how to be patient, humble and kind.

The overall way of thinking in the United States has shifted away from basic Biblical values, and the media share in the responsibility for this change.

We must recognize the fundamental rights of man. There can be no true national life in our democracy unless we give unqualified recognition to freedom of religious worship and freedom of education.

In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

I try not to get political, I don't want to get religious, I don't want to get controversial, I just want to have a show that relates to everybody.

Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

There is nothing in religion but fiction.

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes.

I said, well, it's a very primitive country, the United States, and it's full of superstitions, which come out of a very fundamental religious bias, which is primitive Christianity.

The media of sameness and separation represent the world in its most religious form - the structuring of the social in images.

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing need for affirmation and praise.

I cherish the greatest respect towards everybody's religious obligations, no matter how comical.

Religious ecstasy is a madness of thought freed of its bodily bonds, whereas in the ecstasy of love, the forces of twin natures unite, blend and embrace one another.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part of being human, I guess.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril.

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

The cruelest form of death, I have no doubt, is not physical death. Rather it is that public death which comes from the killing of ideas about God.

If journalism were a religious order, George Orwell would be its patron saint.

When a woman starts out in the world on a mission, secular or religious, she should leave her feminine charms at home.

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

It's very irresponsible as a parent to follow Tipper Gore or the Religious Right's advice and just take the offending CD or game away from the kid without discussing it.

It is only the religious mind that is a truly revolutionary mind.

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

The union of Church and State is not to make the Church political, but the State religious.

Ethnic and religious conflict remain the most intractable and dangerous problems in the world today.

I'm not a very serious Jew. I don't wear the protective religious headgear. They only wear that because 40% of all religious thoughts escape through the head.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

My world view has always been that there's just an enormous amount of cultural and religious diversity out there, all of which is really worth taking in.

If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.

I like one hair, tuna fish, the smell of rain and things that are pink. I hate pimples, baked potatoes, when my mother's mad, and religious holidays.

I always fear dogma. I don't like anything that's dogmatic because it becomes purely religious again and I despise any form of organized religion.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa.

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

To love is everything: love is God.

I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.

Not they who reject the gods are profane, but those who accept them.

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.

The love that exists between people who share religious values and experiences can be the most satisfying and unifying force this side of the solid, happy family.

But for the first time, I had a religious identity. I had come home. And so I called myself a Zen Buddhist at the age of 18.

I think they probably got it on, Jesus and Mary Magdalene.