Religious Quotes

"I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time"

"Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him"

Suzanne Fields

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

Richard King, Director

"My childhood beliefs became so much a part of me that even today I find myself automatically living by a personal standard of conduct which can only be explained as resulting from my religious training"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting"

Ed Harris, Actor

"We spend millions of dollars per year supplying more than adequate meals and a Koran to every detainee along with a prayer rug that meets their religious standards"

Bill Shuster, Politician

"One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always"

Aiden Wilson Tozer, Clergyman

"When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut"

Ann Coulter, Journalist

"Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches"

Pete Seeger, Musician

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

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres"

Bruno Bauer, Theologian

"I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"I'm not religious. In Spain all 22 players make the sign of the cross before they enter the pitch. If it works all matches must therefore end in a draw"

Johan Cruijff, Athlete

"A moment of silence is not inherently religious"

Sandra Day O'Connor, Judge

"I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head"

Joe Eszterhas, Writer

"I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American"

Pete Seeger, Musician

"And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity"

Joseph Lancaster, Educator

"My father was very outwardly religious"

John McGahern, Writer

"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

"I don't know of any cases where as a result of religious precepts a population have found themselves enjoying less food than they would have if they didn't follow this particular religion"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief"

John Howard, Statesman

"I suppose you could sum up the religious aspects of my boyhood by saying it was a time of life when I was taught the difference between right and wrong as it specifically applied to Catholicism"

Robert Vaughn, Actor

"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

"Some people seem to gravitate from one fundamentalism to another, from some kind of secular fundamentalism into a religious fundamentalism or the other way around, which is not very helpful"

Peter L. Berger, Sociologist

"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them"

Mark Haddon, Novelist

"You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me"

Clay Aiken, Musician

"Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma"

Jack Kevorkian, Activist

"From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people"

Howard Dean, Politician

"Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language"

Hilaire Belloc, Poet

"Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity"

H. P. Lovecraft, Novelist

"I was aware of it, but I grew up in a very a-religious family. My mother never went to church, she never had any religious training or background. It was never a part of our social interaction"

Donald Johanson, Scientist

"Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"The whole schizophrenia angle interested me. When I first started working on it, I thought I would play up that angle more than I ended up doing. The religious aspect of the story was also a draw"

Chester Brown, Cartoonist

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

Bill Bradley, Politician

"The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes"

Boris Trajkovski, Statesman

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