Religious Quotes
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it is very hard for a liberal to maintain his smug pose of moral and rational superiority over traditional religious believers and other non-liberals if he admits that his ideals are just one set of ungrounded prejudices among others.
Edward Feser -
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
Gregory Walter Graffin Bad Religion
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I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.
Dave Smalley -
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is studied as something religious. To try to grasp the essence of such phenomenon by means of physiology, psychology, sociology, economics, linguistics, art or any other study is false; it misses the one unique and irreducible element in it - the element of the sacred.
Mircea Eliade -
It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.
James Stewart -
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
J. C. Ryle -
To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.
William Penn -
The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.
Alvin R. Dyer
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I don't set out to transmit a message. I don't write with a political point of view. There are no religious overtones. Looking back at my books, I can say, 'Oh, yes, it is there.' But it's not in my mind when I write.
Lois Lowry -
Historically speaking, religious and conservative groups always wanted the control over the private sphere that impacts women most, as reflected by family law and women's access to resources and mobility. And often secular groups traded this for economic incentives and trade.
Zainab Salbi -
There's only one thing to do with God's offer of the gift of salvation: Say "thank you" and embrace it.
David Jeremiah -
Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.
William James -
I grew up in the church. My mother was highly religious. I was singing at the age of five for big congregations.
Carmen Cusack -
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
Sean Durkin
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I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin -
Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
James Lovelock -
Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.
Dalai Lama -
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
Jimmy Buffett -
Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.
C. S. Lewis -
There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach - it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.
William Howard Taft
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No, I'm not religious, I'm sorry to say. But I was once and shall be again. There is no time now to be religious." "No time. Does it need time to be religious?" "Oh, yes. To be religious you must have time and, even more, independence of time. You can't be religious in earnest and at the same time live in actual things and still take them seriously, time and money and the Odéon Bar and all that.
Hermann Hesse -
The U.S. should prohibit perpetrators and supporters of Islamist brutality from entering the country while embracing advocates for religious freedom. End of story.
Pete Hoekstra -
I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.
Peter Agre -
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.
William J. Brennan, Jr.