Religious Quotes
There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.
Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.
I think truth as an idea should be left to the philosophers and perhaps religious leaders and politicians, and professional people who deal with that idea.
We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.
If there is anything that the ACLU hates more than censorship, it is any form of public religious expression.
Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.
The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.
Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.
A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between your career and your religious practice.
I entered a spiritual community when I was 20, which I was in for 11 year, with very strict meditative practices, with an Eastern teacher. It was very much like a religious order.
My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.
It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.
Tantra is non-dogmatic, in the sense that we don't care about the sensual world; we don't care about other religious traditions. To not care doesn't mean that we don't learn.
Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.
A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary thing that we have to do with our life. This is nonsense. This is the real fun.
Enlightened teachers are not logical. They don't function from levels that are understandable to the human mind. They're not religious. Religions form around them, usually after they've died.
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
... religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right-a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.
One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this.
Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people.
Religious War has signified the greatest advance of the masses so far, for it proves that the masses have begun to treat concepts with respect.
The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.
Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.
On the issues of religious liberty, the Supreme Court continues to scrape against the bedrock of the American spirit.
Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?
Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.
Do not forsake prayer, for just as the body becomes weak when it is deprived of food, so also the soul when it is deprived of prayer draws nigh to weakness and noetic death.
Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition.
As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.
I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.
Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.
You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.
I'm not religious. I do have a baby - a four-month old girl - and that's a religion in itself.
We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.
The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.
Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.