Religious Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Soul

"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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Thomas Jefferson, President

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

Albert Schweitzer, Theologian

"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

"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

"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

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

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion"

Alexander Chase, Author

"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

"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

"The notion of a contemporary epiphany to me is very exciting, because it's a sort of biblical thing. It's something that has happened to people in other centuries or in the context of religious experience"

Pamela Stephenson, Actress

"But alas, they are all sadly deficient, because they leave us under the domination of political and religious prejudices; and they are as inefficient as the sleepy dose of an ordinary sermon"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right"

Brad Pitt, Actor

"I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied"

Susan Sontag, Author

"I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest"

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"My father was very outwardly religious"

John McGahern, Writer

"Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"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

"Not every religion has to have St. Augustine's attitude to sex. Why even in our culture marriages are celebrated in a church, everyone present knows what is going to happen that night, but that doesn't prevent it being a religious ceremony"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"For a truly religious man nothing is tragic"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosopher

"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

"No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer"

Jane Elliot, Actress

"The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"Many of us view the bible and other religious teachings as mythology"

Richard King, Director

"I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them"

James Carville, Lawyer

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

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Religious freedom is too sacred a right to be restricted or prohibited in any degree without convincing proof that a legitimate interest of the state is in grave danger"

Frank Murphy, Politician

"By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty"

Samuel Chase, Judge

"Remarkable is the greater openness of the Catholic Church towards people of other religious traditions and persuasions. The development has not been without problems, since some people have resisted it and others have pushed openness beyond the desirable point"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience"

Shelley Winters, Actress

"There is a continuum of values between the churches and the general community. What distinguishes the handling of these values in the churches is mainly the heavier dosage of religious vocabulary involved"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

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