Religious Quotes

Attacks on alternative religious groups are attempts to psychologize - to medicalize - a controversy that, on deeper examination, is clearly a controversy over ideology and lifestyle.

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

I don't build no heathen temples, where the Lord has done laid a hand. There's a well on the hill, let it be.

When a cult grows up, it becomes a culture.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

The United States Constitution is clear. It prohibits religious tests for public office.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

The Family is the oldest and arguably most influential religious political organization in Washington.

The worst thing about religion was religious people.

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since Roe vs. Wade.

The Christmas spirit is not what you drink.

Too many temples where we could worship the beast.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

To be religious is to be sensitive to reality.

I am more spiritual than religious.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

The idea of "karma" reeks of primitive religious superstition, so I don't place a lot of stock in it.

A religious fanatic is somebody who knows Jesus Christ better than you do.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

You can already download any of the religious texts onto electronic mechanisms like a Kindle. But I think many people prefer to hold a book in their hands.

What if God was one of us, just a slob like one of us?

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held to be true: through faith, all things are possible.

[The war on terrorism isn't a religious war, but] a defense of our right to make moral choices, to seek fellowship with God that is chosen and not commanded.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

This country has gotten seriously off track under the Supreme Court when it went so far as to limit the right of even private citizens to freely express their religious views in public.

The struggle for democracy has to be maintained on as many fronts as culture has aspects: political, economic, international, educational, scientific and artistic, religious.

The religious is any activity pursued in behalf of an ideal end against obstacles and in spite of threats of personal loss because of its general and enduring value.

The scientific-religious conflict ultimately is a conflict between allegiance to this method and allegiance to even an irreducible minimum of belief so fixed in advance that it can never be modified.

While they came from a variety of religious backgrounds and held a wide variety of religious beliefs, each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God.

We will not be derailed by criminal anarchists who legitimately claim a religious cause.

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country - USA - that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

If you asked me one day, I might say, "Well, sometimes I feel a little bit religious." If you asked me another day, I'd just say flat out, "No."

At one time I was so much involved in the religious bullshit that I used to go around calling myself a Christian Communist, but as Janov says, religion is legalised madness.

God may have mercy, but we won't.

My father was very outwardly religious.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.