Top Religious Quotes Collection
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An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.Collection: Religious
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.Collection: Religious
Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.Collection: Religious
The twentieth-century conservative is concerned, first of all, for the regeneration of the spirit and character – with the perennial problem of the inner order of the soul, the restoration of the ethical understanding, and the religious sanction upon which any life worth living is founded. This is conservatism at its highest.Collection: Religious
No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.Collection: Religious
How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!Collection: Religious
When the Constitution of the United States was framed and adopted, those high contracting parties did positively agree that they would not interfere with religious affairs. Now, if our marital relations are not religious, what is? This ordinance of marriage was a direct revelation to us, through Joseph Smith, the prophet. . . . This is a revelation from God and a command to his people, and therefore it is my religion. I do not believe that the Supreme Court of the United States has any right to interfere with my religious views, and in doing it they are violating their most sacred obligations.Collection: Religious
The gospel is like a caged lion,' said the great baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon. 'It does not need to be defended, it simply needs to be let out of it's cage' Today, the cage is our accommodation to the secular/sacred split that reduces Christianity to a matter of personal belief. To unlock the cage, we need to become utterly convinced that, as Francis Schaeffer said, Christianity is not merely religious truth, it is total truth- truth about the whole of reality.Collection: Religious
Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.Collection: Religious
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of the American creed, without distinction of sect or party. Liberty, both civil and religious, is an American instinct. Such liberty is impossible on the basis of a union of church and state, where the one of necessity restricts or controls the other. It requires a friendly separation, where each power is entirely independent in its own sphere.Collection: Religious
It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.Collection: Religious
Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man... , But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians - wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.Collection: Religious
Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.Collection: Religious
What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant enthusiasts are persuaded that they alone have access to the truth, and that the rest of us are infidels, we remain under threat. Lord Acton's famous phrase about power can be used of another danger. Dogma tends to corrupt, and absolute dogma corrupts absolutely.Collection: Religious
I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.Collection: Religious
It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.Collection: Religious
For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.Collection: Religious
Just take it from me," Donovan said. "Stay well clear of the warden. Some here think he's the devil. I don't, I don't believe in that religious talk, but I know evil when I see it. He's something rotten they dragged from the bowels of the earth, something they patched together from darkness and filth. He'll be the death of us all, every single one of us here in Furnace. Only question is when." "I know one thing," I added. "The warden certainly brings out peoples dramatic sides." Zee and Donovan both laughed through their noses.Collection: Religious
Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.Collection: Religious
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.Collection: Religious
The Supreme Court of the United States is an institution damned by God Almighty.Collection: Religious
A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the religious fanatics who sought to cleanse the world of heresy), and the only faith War had was in cold steel and hot blood.Collection: Religious
The secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for the Lord's choicest wines.Collection: Religious
In American terms, the accomplishment of Genghis Khan might be understood if the United States, instead of being created by a group of educated merchants or wealthy planters, had been founded by one of its illiterate slaves, who, by sheer force of personality, charisma, and determination, liberated America from foreign rule, united the people, created an alphabet, wrote the constitution, established universal religious freedom, invented a new system of warfare, marched an army from Canada to Brazil, and opened roads of commerce in a free-trade zone that stretched across the continents.Collection: Religious
To put it in a few words, the true malice of man appears only in the state and in the church, as institutions of gathering together, of recapitulation, of totalization.Collection: Religious
Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.Collection: Religious
You can be moderate in a way and still intense in your views. It's the extremism that gets frightening; religious fundamentalism and wacko-left liberalism is crazy.Collection: Religious
We are driven to confess that we actually care more for religion than we do for religious theories and ideas: and in merely making that distinction between religion and its doctrine-elements, have we not already relegated the latter to an external and subordinate position? Have we not asserted that "religion itself" has some other essence or constitution than mere idea or thought?Collection: Religious
It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath.Collection: Religious
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.Collection: Religious
The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.Collection: Religious
Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world. Because the actual existing church has reduced the Crucifixion and Resurrection to religious affirmations held by a certain tribe, rather than expressions of a type of life, the event they testify to has been almost completely eclipsed.Collection: Religious
But, the true reason for the success of such new expositions [translated Eastern religious texts] is to be found where they are the most accommodating, least rigid, least severe, most vague, and ready to come to easy terms with the prejudices and weaknesses of the modern world. Let everyone have the courage to look deeply into himself and to see what it is that he really wants.Collection: Religious
We cannot be liberated as women in a society built on class oppression or gender oppression or religious oppression.Collection: Religious
The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.Collection: Religious
The most successful educational approach to the Negro is throgh a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.Collection: Religious
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.Collection: Religious
Me personally, I don't have anything against Jesus any more than I do any of the religious icons. I think they're all pretty funny.Collection: Religious
The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in what I called Orientalism. The study of the Other has a lot to do with the control and dominance of Europe and the West generally in the Islamic world. And it has persisted because it's based very, very deeply in religious roots, where Islam is seen as a kind of competitor of Christianity.Collection: Religious
I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.Collection: Religious
The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.Collection: Religious
Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.Collection: Religious
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.Collection: Religious
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?Collection: Religious
... many Hindus are willing to consider Jesus as a legitimate manifestation of the divine... many Buddhists see Jesus as one of humanity's most enlightened people.... A shared reappraisal of Jesus' message could provide a unique space or common ground for urgently needed religious dialogue - and it doesn't seem an exaggeration to say that the future of our planet may depend on such dialogue. This reappraisal of Jesus' message may be the only project capable of saving a number of religions.Collection: Religious
To act well in this world, one must sacrifice all personal desires. The people who become missionaries of religious thought have no other Fatherland than this thought. Man is not on Earth merely to be happy, nor even simply to be honest. He is here to realize great things for humanity, to attain nobility, and to surmount the vulgarity of nearly every individual.Collection: Religious
The movement to abolish the death penalty needs the religious community because the heart of religion is about compassion, human rights, and the indivisible dignity of each human person made in the image of God.Collection: Religious
I respect your right to hold your religious beliefs, and if they help you, I think that's great. I would, however, like to inform you that you are a raving kook.Collection: Religious
I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.Collection: Religious
Most scientists who are religious look for God in what science does understand and has explained. So the way in which my view is different from the creationists or intelligent design proponents is that I find knowledge a compelling reason to believe in God. They find ignorance a compelling reason to believe in God.Collection: Religious