Religious Quotes

Being religious is quintessentially American.

I just think the fact that I was told not to be curious about the dark side, and it was such a religious-heavy upbringing made me interested in goth culture.

I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

Hello God, if we are still on speaking terms, can you help me?

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

Jerusalem is old, Jerusalem is new, Jerusalem can hold Moslem, Christian, Jew.

No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.

We going to have the biggest tax cut since Ronald Reagan, we're going to eliminate job-killing regulations which are a disaster, we are going to defend religious liberty.

The evangelical and religious community has much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits.

For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

To God's own heart be true.

Temptations are like tramps. Treat them kindly, and they will return bringing others with them. Temptations are never so dangerous as when they come to us in a religious garb.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.

Religion is a light in the fog.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

[Moses] Mendelssohn was a religious Jew. I felt sorry for him.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I grew more happy day by day.

The devil never seems so busy as where the saints are, which is another reason why I feel how difficult it would be to be religious.

It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.

Scientists and religious leaders, activists and first nation leaders, CEOs of corporations and actors, all of us need to come together right now, because the planet is in a lot of pain.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.

To fight the violence we must be brave, hold on strong to the love God gave.

Some kneel and lie to God.

Some men kneel and pray, I like women and I like wine.

Religion is a superstition that originated in man's mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

For some reason, religious jokes seem as trivial as jokes about food or driving.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.