Religious Quotes

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

Sean Durkin
- Fall
- Singing
- Prayer
..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

George Washington

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Austin Phelps
- Faith
- Religion
- Morality
[Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith.

Dalai Lama
- Children
- Faith
- Animal
If once in America the question of religious toleration was raised in defense of nonbelievers who dissented from religious orthodoxy, today it is raised by believers who feel excluded from a predominantly secular public world.

Alan Wolfe
I'm not very religious at all - I was raised Catholic, but probably haven't gone to church since my Holy Communion when I was about 6 or 7.

Lynsey Addario
This notion that's peddled by the religious right - that they are oppressed is not true. Sometimes it's a cynical ploy to move their agenda ahead. The classic example being that somehow secularists are trying to eliminate Christmas, which strikes me as some kind of manufactured controversy.

Barack Obama
- Trying
- True
- Christmas
Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

Albert Einstein