Richard Lederer Quotes

There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

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• My family background was deeply Christian.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Christian

• I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Important
  • Think
  • Christian

• Women are oppressed in the east, in the west, in the south, in the north. Women are oppressed inside, outside home, a woman is oppressed in religion, she is oppressed outside religion.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Religion
  • West
  • South

• I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Belief

• Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Different
  • Words
  • Religion

• In my final year of attending a Christian sports camp in rural Missouri, the year before I started high school, they began to offer an elective Bible study group for young Christians who wanted a chance to read in the afternoons instead of learn to water-ski.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • School
  • High
  • Water

• If I have to degrade myself or do something that I'm not willing to do as a Christian to get something, I'm just not willing to do it.

  

  Quinton Aaron
  • Myself
  • Christian
  • Something

• There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters, as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Matters

• My parents are both pastors. In the '80s and '90s in the mainstream Christian world, it was not really common for a woman - especially a married woman and a mother - to be a pastor.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • World
  • Mother
  • Parents

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• I want you to just let a wave of intolerance wash over you. I want you to let a wave of hatred wash over you. Yes, hate is good. … Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a Biblical duty, we are called by God, to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Good
  • God

• My mom's side, they're southern Baptist Christian.

  

  Nelsan Ellis
  • Mom
  • Christian

• Writing 'Deathstroke' presents a number of challenges to me. As a Christian, as a minister, it's difficult for me to write a comic book that all but glorifies violence. So my take on 'Deathstroke' has been to not so much celebrate violence but to deal with the consequences of violence.

  

  Christopher Priest
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Christian

• Far be it for the public schools to teach this, but the U.S.A. was founded on basic Judeo-Christian principles. Don't believe me - take a trip to Washington D.C. and tour the Supreme Court building. There you will see a sculpted copy of the Ten Commandments on the wall.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Believe
  • Christian
  • Wall

• I definitely don't want to only make music in the Christian genre. I want to expand and kind of dive into whatever else is in store. But that doesn't mean I don't love what I get to do as well.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Music
  • Christian

• I was making $50 a week as a house model at Christian Dior for nine months before I learned that photographic models made $50 an hour!

  

  Lauren Hutton
  • House
  • Christian
  • Model

• While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Good
  • Character
  • Political

• We tend to set up success in Christian work as our purpose, but our purpose should be to display the glory of God in human life, to live a life "hidden with Christ in God" in our everyday human conditions.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Society
  • Church
  • Christian

• If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

  

  Herodotus
  • Country
  • Opportunity
  • Religion

• It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Comforting

• It used to be that Democrats and Republicans would disagree, but they could be social to each other. There were times during the year that we acted together in the good of the country.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Good
  • Country
  • Together

• They have the highest customer satisfaction that I've seen.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Satisfaction
  • Customer

• There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time was called the Dark Ages.

  

  Richard Lederer
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