Religious Quotes

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

If being tolerant of differing opinions, if believing that America has to make it as a pluralistic nation, if being civil, if that makes you a liberal, I plead guilty.

I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity.

Promoting a religious agenda that is to apply to every citizen is inconsistent with our laws in the US. It seems to me that your community and mine can live and work together without conflict.

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

God got the power, man has got his vanity. Man gotta choose before God can set him free.

Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61.

There are no truths outside the Gates of Eden.

I bargained for salvation and they gave me a lethal dose.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

God is in heaven, and we all want what's his. But power and greed and corruptible seed seem to be all that there is.

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

A very, very religious man. Every time I eat a peanut, I feel immortal.

My God is better than your God

Love the Lord and in him love me too. And in him, go your own way and I'll be right here with you.

What we have seen in recent years in the United States is the church's rights to express itself, and to conduct its own affairs, being insidiously eroded.

Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of Christian values has gone in America.

God could easily appear and clear up the global religious chaos and confusion. But a delusion can never appear in reality.

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

It's time to resist efforts of the American Civil Liberties Union who have conducted a religious lobotomy on this country, seeking to strip it of any vestige of religious influence.

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

The politicians and the religious leaders and the weapons scientists have been at it for a long time and they've made a thorough mess of it. I mean, we're in deep trouble.

Religious liberty must be protected in this country. It's a principle upon which we were founded.

All of our effort should be focused on protecting the religious liberties and freedom of conscience for those Americans that profoundly disagree with the decision.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

Save me from this road I'm on, Jesus take the wheel.

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

At Cornell, my acting teacher said you cannot be religious and be an artist. I sort of got it, because faith is a comfort and art comes from a lot of places, in a lot of people, from the dark chasm.

There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.

It is not all darkness in a heart which can cry, "My God".

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

He would have us like children who believe what their father tells them.

I am without religious feeling.

I wasn't really aware they were a religious organization for quite some time. But my grandparents were very devout and ran a Quaker meetinghouse and were missionaries at one point.

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense... I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.

I'm not in any way religious. I don't go to church, but I consider myself spiritual.

We have a man [Donald Trump] who judges people based on their performance regardless of your gender, race, your ethnic or religious background.

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

The U.S. Army has recently removed the cross from the insignia worn by chaplains. In its place is a sun with its rays, symbolizing the divine in all things.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

The Chinese are a knowing people; and I daresay that is why they once made a religious odor about old age; to prevent their sons from seeing their own future.