Religious Quotes

"I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling"

"Any musical person who has never heard a Negro congregation under the spell of religious fervor sing these old songs has missed one of the most thrilling emotions which the human heart may experience"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it"

Sugar Ray Leonard, Athlete

"In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside"

Tadao Ando, Architect

"I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars"

Jose Serrano, Politician

"Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way"

Sammy Baugh, Athlete

"The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't"

Rosie O'Donnell, Comedian

"All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake"

John Shelby Spong, Clergyman

"Religion united its influence with those of loyalty and love, and the order of knighthood, endowed with all the sanctity and religious awe that attended the priesthood, became an object of ambition to the greatest sovereigns"

Thomas Bulfinch, Writer

"Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics"

William J. Brennan, Judge

"Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States"

William Blum, Author

"Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms"

J. Philippe Rushton, Psychologist

"The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong"

Marvin Olasky, Educator

"In listing these tendencies making for a new world, we must not forget developments in the religious or spiritual thinking and feeling of mankind, where also we feel a strong unifying trend"

Emily Greene Balch, Educator

"From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom"

Seth Low, Educator

"That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history"

Thomas Howard

"I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available"

Jerry Falwell, Clergyman

"Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master"

Walter Rauschenbusch, Writer

"Military organization, like religious organization, can be seen as a paradigm of organization in general"

Robert Shea, Author

"Indeed, one of the most successful and influential religious organizations in history, the Society of Jesus, was consciously modeled along military lines by its founder, Ignatius Loyola"

Robert Shea, Author

"It only takes five people in black robes to determine such crucial issues for our country as abortion, pornography, same-sex 'marriage,' and religious liberties"

Richard Land

"If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message"

Moustapha Akkad, Director

"But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background"

Walter Gilbert, Scientist

"We're nondenominational. I come from Northern Ireland, and we've had religious wars for years. I didn't want to create an illusion that my God is better than your God. So our show is a spiritual show, not a religious show"

Roma Downey, Actress

"Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us"

Russell M. Nelson, Clergyman

"Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it"

Francis Wright, Activist

"I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir"

Kate Clinton, Comedian

"The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study"

Philip Schaff, Theologian

"After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"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

"Most Modern Orthodox are religious Zionists. Despite all differences and nuances among us, we consider the founding of the State a historic change. We accept it as something that came from Providence"

Norman Lamm, Educator

"According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background"

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President

"Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics"

Mary Daly, Theologian

"Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington"

Daniel H. Hill, Soldier

"The trend of all knowledge at the present is to specialize, but archaeology has in it all the qualities that call for the wide view of the human race, of its growth from the savage to the civilized, which is seen in all stages of social and religious development"

Margaret Murray, Scientist

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