Religious Quotes

We favor a strong nonproliferation program that emphasizes diplomacy, reliance on multilateral regimes, controls on nuclear materials, and cooperative nuclear threat reduction.

The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

The dynamically orthodox orders of religious women will continue to grow, and the dying orders, which long ago opted for the lightest of Catholic Lite, will continue to die.

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

The man of the true religious tradition understands two things: liberty and obedience. The first means knowing what you really want. The second means knowing what you really trust.

Religious unity can look like a carnival and religious liberty can look like a funeral.

I grew up with a house full of dogs. My mother was a great nature lover and taught us to have almost a religious sense of respect for the natural world.

I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

You may be a fantastic person, and you may have some wonderful religious views that might even turn out to be true, but the religion you'd be following would not be Christianity.

I've had two fatwas issued against me by despot mullahs opposed to education - and important to know that the great majority of Imams and Islamic religious leaders support education for all children.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.

I have never observed that the religious are more eager to die than the rest of us poor mortals.

Critics often point to historical issues such as slavery, upon which many Christians did act inconsistently, in an effort to invalidate Christian participation in contemporary social issues.

The Christian principles on which the country was primarily founded are rarely consulted other than for formalities of state, derision, or for the purpose of contrasts in the making of new laws.

Palestinians were religious in many ways, but they did not subscribe to political Islam, historically.

It is a part of Christianity to convert every natural talent to a religious use.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

I was taught in my religious upbringing to spell God with a dash, G-d. But now my dash is pink.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

It is not simply a theological treatise, a code of laws, a religious homily, but the Bible - the book - while the only book for the soul, the best book for the mind

Costs are incurred whenever any group is treated as lesser or the other, whether they are women, racial, or religious minorities, or the LGBT.

By the favour of the heavens

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

My view of Christianity is that the hallmark of being a Christian is to reach out to people who have been left behind. So I think there was a religious aspect to my decision to support civil unions.

Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

Whether or not we are religious, respecting others should be seen as just as important as looking out for ourselves, yet it requires discipline to change our bad habits that cause pain to animals.

I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest.

The problem is efforts by liberals to establish a wall between religion and society, in the guise of maintaining the wall between church and state.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

When someone uses the word 'cult,' it usually says more about them than the group

Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed.

I'm still waiting for the Lord to come hug me.

There is a powerful desire by majorities to assert a religious identity for the country.

Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.

Lord, we don't need another mountain.

But the more insidious enemies of religion recognize but deplore religion's remarkable influence in the world order.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

[Religious liberty was] in its nature an inalienable right ... because the opinions of men, depending only upon the evidence contemplated by their minds, cannot follow the dictates of other men.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.