Religious Quotes

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

My religious reading has long been confined to the moral branch of religion, which is the same in all religions; while in that branch which consists of dogmas, all differ[.

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

I'm not going to change my religious practice to get one vote, but I know how to take an oath and uphold the law, and if you elect me I will uphold the law.

The removal of religion as history from our schoolbooks betrays the intellectual dishonesty of secular humanist educators and reveals their blind hostility to Christianity.

The mainline media attacks all conservatives, especially Christians, and distorts their policies and beliefs so that the local population is afraid to vote for them.

The elite attack religious people and clergy with a vengeance.

Rock musicians are consistent in their disdain and irreverent treatment of Jesus Christ.

Liberal humanists now seem to dominate the fields of art, journalism, and communication, which are powerful and uniquely able to spread anti-Christian thought.

Most media leaders are liberal and much of their programming reflects anti-Christian sentiment.

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

Mr. Speaker, there are some in this Chamber who believe that Christians, like well-behaved children, should be seen and not heard... Christians will not remain silent. We are here to stay.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.

Well I wasn't really attacking the religious beliefs [in the song 'The Vatican Rag'], I was attacking the formality of the rituals of the Catholic church; however, people took it wrongly.

Gypsies at home watching Jerry Falwell on TV, might mean something to you, it ain't nothing to me.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

In religious circles, depression is often deemed to be a spiritual condition that can be cured with prayer.

Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.

I have kind of an almost religious feeling about poets. I usually refuse to meet them because I admire them so much. Except for Poe.

My fear is greater than my faith, but I walk the missionary way.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

This is entertainment, not Judaism, I think the general public will celebrate this, but the religious public will be indifferent. (on Madonna's visit to Israel)

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

Beware of being a religious poseur, trying to live up to a dramatized version of yourself.

My father is quite conservative and religious, and hes been wanting me to get married since I was 15.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.

We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

They are mad men (Jews), but you should not burn them for that.

Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.

Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.

In gratitude for God's gift of life to us we should share that gift with others. The art of giving encompasses many areas. It is an outgoing, overflowing way of life.