Religious Quotes

• If we have never had the experience of taking our commonplace religious shoes off our commonplace religious feet, and getting rid of all the undue familiarity with which we approach God, it is questionable whether we have ever stood in his presence.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Experience
  • Shoes

• Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

  

  Clive Bell
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Family

• Though I'm not religious, I am interested in religion. I read a lot of history and I think it came out of that. I just think I couldn't understand certain eras of history without knowing what these people believed in.

  

  Hal Hartley
  • People
  • History
  • Religious

• I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.

  

  Scotty McCreery
  • Up
  • Song
  • Strong

• The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Religious

• My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • She
  • Mom
  • Religious

• I'm kind of kooky, but do I look like a religious nut?

  

  Peggy Lipton
  • Religious

• The earliest religious feeling MacAllister could recall was being annoyed at Adam, because it was his fault that girls subsequently had to wear clothes.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Feeling
  • Religious
  • Annoyed

• It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Jesus
  • Stranger
  • Uncomfortable

• If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men 'mesmerize' each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the voice of the preacher.

  

  Frederick William Faber
  • World
  • Men
  • May

• She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Religious
  • Rid

• While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • Effort
  • Struggle
  • Doubt

• Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife and nature. Ultimately, this dualistic battle is based on false premises. In fact, this planet is more powerful than the human species.

  

  Zeena Schreck
  • Nature
  • Powerful
  • Battle

• The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.

  

  Olara Otunnu
  • Time
  • Children
  • Political

• My Latin education teaches me that religion comes from religio, which means, 'to bind.' To bind with rope. And that's all it means. So whenever I hear somebody go, 'I feel so religious right now!' I'm like, 'Well, you're tying yourself up in knots, are you?'

  

  James Callis
  • Up
  • Education
  • Latin

• You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • God
  • War
  • Suicide

• In modern America, Judeo-Christian beliefs are often held up to ridicule and disdain by the media.

  

  D. James Kennedy
  • Up
  • America
  • Christian

• I was never religious.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Religious

• Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

  

  S. Parkes
  • Life
  • Responsibility
  • Dog

• We should emphasize not Negro History, but the Negro in history. What we need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the world, void of national bias, race, hate, and religious prejudice. There should be no indulgence in undue eulogy of the Negro. The case of the Negro is well taken care of when it is shown how he has far influenced the development of civilization.

  

  Carter G. Woodson
  • World
  • Hate
  • Taken

• For a person who is very much involved with the institution of religion but has lost the religious spirit, the 'religion' label is the real threat to liberty.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Real
  • Lost
  • Religious

• the Republicans love to say that the Democratic Party is ruled by 'special interests.' But when pressed to name these 'special interests,' the usual reply is women, blacks, teachers, and unions. Those are 'special interests' to be proud of - because together they comprise the majority of Americans. What about the 'special interests' that dominate the Republican Party - the oil companies, the banks, the gun lobby, and the apostles of religious intolerance?

  

  Geraldine Ferraro
  • Political
  • Proud
  • Teacher

• I'm not a religious person at all.

  

  Marjane Satrapi
  • Religious

• Ill tell you, Mr. Thomas, why some Christians are afraid of me. They're not sure that what they believe is really true. If they were sure, I wouldn't be a threat to them at all.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Believe
  • Why
  • True

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