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 wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult"

"I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up"

Dan Millman, Author

"I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"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

"My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage"

Ed Case, Politician

"Indian names were either characteristic nicknames given in a playful spirit, deed names, birth names, or such as have a religious and symbolic meaning"

Charles Eastman, Author

"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

"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

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt"

Paul Tillich, Theologian

"I'm not a religious person. I'm Catholic, so I consider myself more of a spiritual person. I believe in God"

Tracey Gold, Actress

"To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?"

Christopher Hampton, Playwright

"The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected"

Mike Ferguson, 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

"Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"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

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

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

"Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals"

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Philosopher

"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

"All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives"

Dalai Lama, Leader

"When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"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

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

Daniel Radcliffe, Actor

"The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices"

Bill Bradley, Politician

"Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me"

Richard Pryor, Actor

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church"

Goldwin Smith, Historian

"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

"The territorial state is such an ancient form of society - here in Europe it dates back thousands of years - that it is now protected by the sanctity of age and the glory of tradition. A strong religious feeling mingles with the respect and the devotion to the fatherland"

Christian Lous Lange, Politician

"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

"To the extent that I come from a deeply religious tradition and have been contending with those beginnings all of my life - that constitutes the subject of much of my early fiction"

Chaim Potok, Author

"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

"This, it may be said, is no more than a hypothesis... only of that force of precedent which in all times has been so strong to keep alive religious forms of which the original meaning is lost"

William Robertson Smith, Scientist

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

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

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

William O. Douglas, Judge

"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

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

Samuel Alito

"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

"It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored"

James K. Polk, President

"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

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