Religious Quotes

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.

Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

[T]hat I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf--felt akin to an instance of religious grace.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red pill, learn some moral psychology and step outside the moral matrix.

When I was young, I was religious.

Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.

I grew up with very little religious training. Actually, like, none. I think what Jewishness I felt as a kid stemmed almost entirely from this atrocity in our family tree.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and no one is better at making everyone she meets feel valued.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

How can we bless at one moment and curse at another?

The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.

Because man is endowed with Reason, he can subdue his impulses in the service of moral and religious ideals, and is born to bear rule over Nature.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

Stephen L. Carter coined the phrase 'the culture of disbelief' to describe the prevailing hostility in Western culture toward public expressions of faith.

There is too much undissolved wrath and punishment in most religions.

I think that behind the scenes the Pope [Francis] is seen as more of a religious figure, but obviously he is sort of a global political figure.

If you can manage to be thankful in every situation, really believing that God is working everything out for your good, you will end up with the victory every single time.

God has created us to be dependent upon Him, to bring Him our challenges and allow Him to help us with them.

It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

We must remember we are stewards of what God has provided for us, not owners.

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.

We need to put no confidence in the arm of flesh, but rather trust ourselves entirely to the arm of the Lord.

It is God's will to bless us, but not necessarily on our terms. Sometimes what we think would be a wonderful blessing would not bless us at all.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

I don't have a spiritual bone in my body; but what I am, is religious.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

A lot of people who are religious, I think they get lost. They go to church just to go to church.

I knew I could never give up on music. Completely devoid of any religious or iconic context, I felt like music was handed down to me - this is what I was going to do.

I've got a lot of different religious ideas circling through my family, but the positive thing is that I was raised with a lot of openness and compassion.

The way Kathy Lee needs Regis, that's the way I need Jesus.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

If professional religious leaders can [no longer] instruct..., our artists and creative writers can perhaps step into this priestly role and bring fresh insight to our lost and damaged world.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

I don't think it has to be one religious structure, one church. I think the issues of faith and redemption are much more universal than any one religion.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual.

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

The spiritual experience isn’t one of filling ourselves up— with either religious or intellectual beliefs—but of emptying ourselves so that we can experience what is, directly, unfiltered.

God has given us a universe. It's really an expensive toy with no instructions. We're gonna break it sooner or later.