Religious Quotes
"One becomes a deeply religious nonbeliever...". It is clear from the original that it is definitely not "I".
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.
Although I cannot believe that the individual survives the death of his body, feeble souls harbor such thought through fear or ridiculous egotism.
It's very difficult to live with religious ideas. I can't compare religion to the movies. I can fuse them.
I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm an atheist, and I'm just not really interested in religious-based questions.
I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.
I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.
The preternatural solemnity of a good many of the professionally religious is to me a point against them.
It's not like we did something wrong. We just burned down the church while the choir within sang religious songs.
Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.
Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.
RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.
EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.
BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
Without faith we count down the days to death, with it we count up the days till happiness
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
Somehow, what's in our hearts, good or bad is eventually translated into words and deeds.
If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.
Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.
If any other religious cult knew so few basic facts about its own seminal beliefs as the liberal cult does about Joe McCarthy, Janet Reno would gas them.
The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.
If you're not religious, then look at it this way. This world of ours is four thousand, six hundred million years old. It could end in an afternoon.
Many people asked me to convert. I said my religious convictions remain. I am fighting the wrongs within my own community. And if I decide to convert I will lose the right to fight.
Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.
Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and maim on religious grounds.
I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.
We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.
I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around.
If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.
I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious.
Do you think the Bible is accurate? I mean, do you think it's real?" " I think Pastor Calvin is hot. In a fortysomething way. That pretty much sums up my religious conviction
I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.
Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
I grew up around people, so I know 'em, and I do like playin' 'em. I'm not religious, but I am kind of a spiritual fanatic, so maybe I understand them in that way.
The American Civil Liberties Union, has helped neutralize the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our legal system by seeking new legal precedents.
I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.