Religious Quotes

My religion is complicated. Literature is my true religion. After all, I come from a completely non-religious family.

We see our liberties curtailed more and more and more.We see a tremendous attack on religious freedom.

A religious person is a desireless person.

A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.

This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.

Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

Let me insist and emphasise it because I would like all of my sannyasins to be creative in some way. To me, creativity is of tremendous import. An uncreative person is not a religious person at all.

I think there is and ultimate answer in a true religious faith, but it doesn't give you any immediate answers, it doesn't.

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.

Everyone seems to be searching and yearning for answers whatever they may be. And that ends up being some kind of spiritual or religious belief.

Jealousy destroys the matrimonies; jealousy destroys the friendships, jealousy provokes religious wars, fratricidal hates, murderers and all kind of suffering.

Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

I believe in God, but in my own unconventional way. We're not affiliated with any organisation, and I have no religious education of any kind, but I definitely have my own kind of ideas about it.

God needs to get rescued from religious music.

The irony is, of course, that many of the values that I was raised with, that I think are very important, that I hold dear, are the result of a religious faith.

Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history, our geography. God is merely a byproduct of the bible.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be, The heart it humbles, and it bows the knee.

We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time.

Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.

While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory.

I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them.

I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Any violence which does not spring from a spiritual base, will be wavering and uncertain. It lacks the stability which can only rest in a fanatical outlook.

[Mullah Omar] gave himself this religious title. So it was something that all those people there who swore an oath of loyalty to him as a religious leader could not easily get rid of.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

To be right with God has often meant to be in trouble with men.

Religious externals may have meaning for the God-inhabited soul; for any others they are not only useless but may actually become snares, deceiving them into a false and perilous sense of security.

Be thankful, but be careful that you don't become so enamored of God's good gifts that you fail to worship the giver.

An honest man is strange when he is among dishonest men, but it is a good kind of strangeness.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

Speaking from my own religious tradition in this Christmas season, 2,000 years ago a homeless woman gave birth to a homeless child in a manger because the inn was full.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.

Where do find the most persecuted Christians in the world?... in the classrooms of our government schools, where the assault is not upon the body, but the soul.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful.