Religious Quotes

Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution.

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

God can dream a bigger dream for you than you can dream for yourself, and your role on Earth is to attach yourself to that divine force and let yourself be released to it.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.

Rock and roll is my religion.

The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive.

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

If you want to make the government take a religious side, then make the case, it should be Christian republic.

In our days of prosperity it is more difficult to sustain a religious spirit than in times of adversity, because we are apt to forget that God who has bountifully given may also take away.

People don't so much believe in God as that they choose not to believe in nothing.

Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious.

This is what I mean by becoming religious: no guilt, no ego, no trip of any kind...just being herenow...being with the trees and the birds and the rivers and the mountains and the stars.

Hidden behind man is God. Just give him a little way, a little passage, to come through you. That is creativity. Allowing God to happen is creativity. Creativity is a religious state.

Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence.

At its highest, love is a religious state of consciousness. I love you too, Buddha loves, Jesus loves, but their love demands nothing in return.

Our legal and political culture has created a bias in the law that borders on censorship against reading, displaying, or quoting the Bible.

People of faith find themselves marginalized and ridiculed. In a nation where our coins carry the motto, 'In God We Trust...'

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

Examples of hostility toward religious values and those who hold them abound... This antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not to display it.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

Each new lawsuit seeks to expand the size of the 'religion-free zone' in the public square.

Antireligious bigotry is not confined to the classroom.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.

Therefore is nature ever the ally of Religion: lends her all her pomp and riches to the religious sentiment.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Of strong importance to me is the defense of minority rights, not just racial minorities, but ideological and religious minorities.

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

Our problem in America is not with atheists or the pagans who are consistent with their unbelief, but with believers who are inconsistent with their belief.

If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

If we could only put God first, maybe this ugly trend could one day be reversed.

The separation of church and state is necessary partly because if religion is good then the state shouldn't interfere with the religious vision or with the religious prophet.

To be religious is not to feel, but to be.

I'm a sucker for nice religious leaders. I fall for it every time.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful, loving and redemptive qualities in all of us.

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

In one generation of silent neglect, we have allowed the revisionists of our history to rewrite our past and deny that we have a Christian heritage.