Religious Quotes

• 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
  • Women
  • Family
  • Law

• I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

  

  William Francis Buckley
  • Religious
  • Catholic
  • Decent

• Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

  

  Will Herberg
  • Religious
  • Needs
  • Breathe

• Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Religious
  • Illusions
  • Doctrines

• 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
  • Science
  • Religious

• One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown.

  

  Marcy Kaptur
  • Purpose
  • Religious

• In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

  

  David Starkey
  • Church
  • Mean
  • Moral

• The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Liberty
  • Blessing

• The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

  

  Alvin R. Dyer
  • America
  • Religious
  • Destiny

• If you feel so lonely you could cry, take the focus off yourself. Think of how much God loves you, and find another person whom you can serve today.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Today
  • Focus

• Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

  

  Chinmayananda Saraswati
  • Love
  • Passion
  • Consistent

• It is in the name of Jesus, himself become God, that fanaticism ignominiously condemned to the stake men like Giodano Bruno, Vanini, Étienne Dolet, John Huss, Savanarola, and numerous other heroic victims; that the Inquisition ordered Galileo to belie his conscience; that thousands and thousands of unfortunates accused of witchcraft were burnt alive in popular ceremonies; it was with the express benediction of Pope Gregory XIII that the butchery of St. Bartholomew drenched Paris in blood.

  

  Camille Flammarion
  • Evil
  • Jesus
  • Victim

• It doesn't take a brilliant mind to notice that adults are telling you what to do and then they do the opposite. I mean, I can't recall every stupid thing that adults were doing when I was six or seven. Some of it was the religious restrictions, where there were certain things that you were allowed to do and certain things that you weren't allowed to do, and I couldn't make things of those things.

  

  Al Jaffee
  • Religious
  • Things
  • Adults

• Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Religious
  • Identity
  • Salvation

• The bottom line is not money but some sort of demonic compulsion that drives these people to lash out against Jesus Christ, against Christians, and against anyone who holds to a sincere belief in God, in spite of the fact that it is going to cost them tens of millions of dollars to do it. They are driven to 'make a statement' regardless of the consequences.

  

  Michael Medved
  • People
  • Bottom
  • Sincere

• ...it becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Single
  • Humanity

• If God is about putting God ahead of myself then I've just quit being religious, because that's what got me into such deep trouble.

  

  Barbara Brown Taylor
  • God
  • Religious
  • Trouble

• Some people consider the practice of love and compassion is only related to religious practice and if they are not interested in religion they neglect these inner values. But love and compassion are qualities that human beings require just to live together.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Live
  • Together

• I was raised really religious, and it's a big part of my life. No matter what I go through, my faith will always be there.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Religious

• The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

  

  David Barton
  • Running
  • Government
  • Christian

• My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

  

  Ken Livingstone
  • Political
  • Religious
  • Moral

• Protestantism came and gave a great blow to the religious and ritualistic rhythm of the year, in human life. Non-conformity almostfinished the deed.... Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos, and the permanence of marriage.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Great
  • Marriage

• 'Are you a religious man, Joe?'Flitch pulled a face. 'I leaves that sort of thing to women.'

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Women
  • Religious

• We acquire both the language and religious concepts from our immediate culture – at the same time. A child cannot discriminate between useful survival information and the emotional and psychological manipulations of religion. Once infected, these ideas are deeply embedded and almost impossible to change.

  

  Darrel Ray
  • Children
  • Religious
  • Emotional

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