Religious Quotes

• Religious liberty doesn't include encouraging a fellow American to engage in violent jihad and kill an American here. That is not protected free speech. That is not protected religious belief.

  

  George Pataki
  • American
  • Free
  • Encouraging

• I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • God
  • Want

• I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • People
  • Bad
  • Weird

• I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

  

  Sebastiao Salgado
  • Religious
  • Language
  • Symbolic

• That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters. When a thoughtful and unblessed Mohammedan examines the Westminster Catechism, he knows that beyond any question I am spiritually insane.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Remember
  • Question
  • Simple

• Under Nasser, Egyptian nationalism was built on little more than pan-Arab irredentism and anti-Western and anti-Israeli sentiment. Mr. Mubarak retained these powerful brainwashers and allowed the rise of a religious component to further alienate Egyptians from liberal and democratic thinking.

  

  Andre Aciman
  • Thinking
  • Powerful
  • Religious

• I'm not a quester or a searcher for the truth. I don't really think there is one answer, so I never went looking for it. My impulse is less questing and more playful. I like trying on ideas and ways of life and religious approaches. I'm just not a good candidate for conversion.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• My education was dominated by modernist thinkers and artists who taught me that the supreme imperative was courage to face the awful truth, to scorn the soft-minded optimism of religious and secular romantics as well as the corrupt optimism of governments, advertisers, and mechanistic or manipulative revolutionaries.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Truth
  • Education
  • Courage

• Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • People
  • Religious

• Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Religious
  • Democracy

• Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.

  

  Alcee Hastings
  • People
  • May
  • Religious

• My family is very religious.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Family
  • Religious

• When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

  

  Elizabeth Joan Smith
  • Religious

• My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.

  

  Preston Manning
  • God
  • Christian
  • Study

• My goal is to live the truly religious life and express it through my music. If you can live it, there's no problem about the music, because it's part of the whole thing.

  

  John Coltrane
  • Life
  • Music
  • Live

• In terms of my religious preference, if a year goes by and I don't have a Seder or I don't light the menorah, I feel a loss.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • Light
  • Religious

• If you're unhappy with another person's behavior, pray about it and be honest and open in dealing with it in the right kind of way.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Christian
  • Honest

• The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

  

  Arthur Goldberg
  • Religious

• When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.

  

  Leland Ryken
  • Religious

• In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • Respect
  • Religious
  • Military

• I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • People
  • Up
  • Respect

• An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt.

  

  Antonio Tabucchi
  • Political
  • Perfect
  • Doubt

• The capitalist class is interested in keeping the workingmen divided among themselves. Hence it foments race and religious animosities that come down from the past.

  

  Daniel De Leon
  • Religious
  • Race
  • Animosities

• Coaching works best with high potential people who are willing to make a concerted effort to change, not as a religious conversion activity.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • High
  • Effort

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