Religious Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Soul

"The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum"

"I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life"

Carl Jung, Psychologist

"Well, in The Chosen, Danny Saunders, from the heart of his religious reading of the world, encounters an element in the very heart of the secular readings of the world - Freudian psychoanalytic theory"

Chaim Potok, Author

"Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech"

Samuel Alito

"Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

"Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself"

Amos Oz, Writer

"I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way"

Corazon Aquino, President

"I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation"

Erika Slezak, Actress

"What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small"

Richard Mentor Johnson, Politician

"The funny thing is all these school shootings that we have, always happen in very religious communities. Maybe it's because the centre of their lives is a big fat nothing and it's just a fantasy and there's nothing there. I think maybe that might have something to do with it"

Matthew Bright, Director

"We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being"

William O. Douglas, Judge

"I think the court will determine that the Faith-Based Initiative that the White House has instituted in the last five years is constitutional, in the context of allowing for broad-based programs to include religious providers"

Jay Alan Sekulow, Lawyer

"What I believe in touches many aspects of religious and spiritual thought. Mainly I'm influenced and inspired by the eastern yogi's aspect of mysticism, Which is, I think, the future"

Dave Davies, Musician

"An intellectual is going to have doubts, for example, about a fundamentalist religious doctrine that admits no doubt, about an imposed political system that allows no doubt, about a perfect aesthetic that has no room for doubt"

Antonio Tabucchi, Writer

"After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book"

Victor Hugo, Author

"I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

"It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person"

Abraham Lincoln, President

"By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive"

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them"

Thomas Jefferson, President

"The Clinton administration launched an attack on people in Texas because those people were religious nuts with guns. Hell, this country was founded by religious nuts with guns. Who does Bill Clinton think stepped ashore on Plymouth Rock?"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant"

John F. Kennedy, President

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty"

Samuel Adams, Revolutionary

"I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization"

Wilfrid Laurier, Statesman

"Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect"

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer

"Fascism is a religious concept"

Benito Mussolini, Politician

"The only religious way to think of death is as part and parcel of life"

Thomas Mann, Writer

"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy"

Thomas Paine, Writer

"He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world"

J.D. Salinger, Novelist

"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline"

Kamisese Mara, Statesman

"There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse"

William James, Philosopher

"As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith"

Mark Hatfield, Politician

"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle"

George Washington, President

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