Religious Quotes

• I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.

  

  Geoffrey Canada
  • Believe
  • Faith
  • Community

• Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

  

  Jacques Maritain
  • Religious

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

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale.

  

  Mario Cuomo
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Catholic

• I wouldn't call myself religious. I'm spiritual. Everybody's a bit more so as you get older. I'm a cultural Catholic; it's inescapable, but I think I have to believe.

  

  Garry Hynes
  • Believe
  • Myself
  • Spiritual

• The word spirit comes from the Latin word for "breath" - spiritu - and the origin of the word spirituality has to do with breath and life force, the mysteries of the ancients and all this. The word is very suspect in much of the art world - the Western art world. Certainly, spirituality has become divorced from religious.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Day
  • Religious
  • Sunshiny

• When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult time. Even though religion was a big part of the civil rights and peace movements, in my college religion was treated as irrelevant, hopelessly stodgy, and behind the times.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Time
  • America
  • Culture

• The struggle of democratic secularism, religious tolerance, individual freedom and feminism against authoritarian patriarchal religion, culture and morality is going on all over the world - including the Islamic world, where dissidents are regularly jailed, killed, exiled or merely intimidated and silenced.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • World
  • Culture
  • Freedom

• The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

  

  Dennis Prager
  • Christian
  • Religious

• My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

  

  Scott Ian Anthrax
  • Parent
  • Grandfather
  • Jew

• My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Marriage
  • Spiritual
  • Moral

• It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.

  

  James D. Watson
  • Science
  • Religious
  • Scripture

• Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second are determined modes of action.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Action
  • Religious
  • Opinion

• Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

  

  Jay Parini
  • Power
  • Help
  • Christmas

• The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Purpose
  • Religious
  • Compassion

• 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.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Doing
  • Criticism
  • Tradition

• If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • People
  • Dangerous
  • Clouds

• The progressive Islamisation of our country and the increase in political-religious demands are calling into question the survival of our civilisation.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Country
  • Political
  • Question

• Religious people are simply following major core practices of happy people. For example, one benefits from the guaranteed social support that can be found in a church, synagogue, or mosque.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Happy
  • Support

• The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.

  

  Philip Schaff
  • Men
  • Culture
  • Simple

• I do care if religious doctrine becomes an excuse to exclude my fellow citizens from the rights and protections our country promises.

  

  Bill Keller
  • Country
  • Religious

• The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Country
  • Running
  • Balance

• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • Religious

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