Religious Quotes
As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.
The art of humility begins with a recognition of our dependence on others and an appreciation of God's gift of life.
In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him. Our imaginations cannot stretch wide enough to take in all of God.
By the grace of God you are what you are; glory in your selfhood, accept yourself and go on from there.
Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.
The ACLU sues no matter what public property a religious symbol is placed on.
It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.
America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.
In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.
President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.
A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.
'Come hither, my boy, tell me what thou seest there?' 'A fool tangled in a religious snare.'
Literature can be divided into two large families: the religious and the secular one. The first reveals the origin of stupidity, the second follows its evolution.
I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.
It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.
The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.
Love and pity and wish well to every soul in the world; dwell in love, and then you dwell in God.
Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
... religious insults are considered acceptable even by those who decry slurs about race, ethnicity, and gender. Religious people seem to deserve such treatment.
A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.
As a writer I try to operate within a framework of Christian principles, and the words that are important to me are religious words: witness, pilgrimage, intention.
There was unusual unanimity on our pastoral responsibility to care for the immigrants in our midst no matter their country of origin or religious affiliation.
I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
With the rise of self- awareness, all separatisms cease to exist - all delusions cease to exist.
I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.
All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows
It was shepherds who were the first to recognize a king that the rest of the world refused to acknowledge. So it’s not surprising that kings would talk to shepherds.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Vir
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
Everyone should be able to attend to his religious as well as his bodily needs without the police sticking their nose in.
Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
As a Buddhist, I see no distinction between religious practice and daily life. Religious practice is a twenty-four hour occupation.