Religious Quotes

• Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need the things that religions gave us simply as images and metaphors. But they can be found in a variety of ways. It's not a question of religious practice.

  

  Eugene Green
  • Spiritual
  • Imagine
  • Variety

• The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."

  

  African Spir
  • Philosophy
  • Virtue
  • Sciences

• The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

  

  William Barclay
  • Long
  • Black
  • Joy

• The melancholy have the best sense of the comic, the opulent often the best sense of the rustic, the dissolute often the best sense of the moral, and the doubter often the best sense of the religious.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Religious
  • Melancholy
  • Doubter

• We often ask our citizens to split their public and private selves, telling them in effect that it is fine to be religious in private, but there is something askew when those private beliefs become the basis for public action.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Action
  • Christian
  • Belief

• It is evident from their writings that the Founding Fathers would never have tolerated the separation that we have embraced today. They knew that religious principles provided morality and self-control - the lifeblood for the survival of any self-governing community.

  

  David Barton
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Community

• There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Christian
  • Religious

• If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Hero
  • Activity
  • Pharisees

• Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Thinking
  • Religion
  • Cold

• The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Country
  • Political

• I believe that God is the source of all the universal, timeless principles. And to Him, I give all the credit and the glory. However, to a person who is not religious, I believe they can live to the highest level of their conscience and develop spiritual intelligence that surpasses most people, including many religious people, who profess but do not practice.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Spiritual
  • Glory
  • Conscience

• I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Universe
  • Religious
  • Audience

• 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
  • People
  • Trying
  • Worldview

• Of course, no religious test for the presidency - every faith adds to our national character.

  

  Benjamin Carson
  • Character
  • Faith
  • Religious

• Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Believe
  • Men
  • Real

• Religion is all based on the mentality of "I'm right", but now today it's moved from even the question of "I'm right and I'm willing to tolerate those who agree that I am right or those who don't disturb me anyway". Now, it's a question of "If you do not accept that I'm right, I have a right to kill you". That is the mentality of religious fundamentalism today. That is the meaning of the kind of terror which we are witnessing today, that everybody is expendable who do not actually physically line up behind me.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Today
  • Kind
  • Accepting

• Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

  

  William James
  • Mountain
  • Twilight
  • Awe

• Among the elementary measures the American government will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools, colleges, and universities will be coordinated and grouped under a National Department of Education and its state and local branches. The studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic, and other features of bourgeois ideology.

  

  William Z. Foster
  • School
  • College
  • Study

• In the government, we have a very important responsibility to protect the rights of our pastors and religious leaders. They have the freedom to speak out about what they believe, without fear of repercussions from their very own government.

  

  Steve Daines
  • Government
  • Responsibility
  • Religious

• Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • War
  • Law
  • Should

• There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed by the eternal intelligence of the Universe that enables a man to approach perfection. It may be in the arts of music and painting or it may be in commerce, law, or medicine. It may be in the study of war or the study of peace. Each is as important as any other. Spiritual enlightenment through religious meditation such as Zen or in any other way is as viable and functional as any "Way."... A person should study as they see fit.

  

  Miyamoto Musashi
  • Important
  • Meditation
  • Perfection

• There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Christian
  • Causes
  • Evidence

• All religious leaders and spiritual teachers emphasize finding a place within us that is true. People who obsessively follow these leaders instead of their own purpose attach to the spiritual leader and become fanatical and controlling. That's why Jesus tried to tell his followers not to get attached to outward form.

  

  Martha Beck
  • People
  • Why
  • True

• Appeal to all scholars of stupidity in the world. Come to Italy, this country has the highest rate of morons of the universe, especially among political, bureaucratic, judicial, religious, intellectual, artistic, and mass media members, so it is the best place to develop your own field research.

  

  William C. Brown
  • Country
  • Political
  • Research

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