Religious Quotes

"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

"I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war"

Konrad Lorenz, Scientist

"Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight and wine at your table could be a form of religious experience for some people. To me it's a form of sacrament"

Sally Quinn, Journalist

"The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to believe that, but very few people actually live as if that were true"

Neale Donald Walsch, Author

"I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five"

Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman

"No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them"

Elie Wiesel, Novelist

"I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran"

Newt Gingrich, Politician

"Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom"

Horst Koehler, Statesman

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other"

John Adams, President

"A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society"

Joseph Ratzinger, Clergyman

"I am certainly not a mainstream religious man"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion"

Lord Hailsham, Politician

"While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well"

Paul Harris, Entertainer

"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

"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment"

Pierre de Coubertin, Leader

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

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"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

"I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"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

"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

"The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences"

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Activist

"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

"I'm not religious in any formal sense, not in any God sense"

Al Purdy, Poet

"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

"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

"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

"America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies"

James F. Cooper, Novelist

"The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values"

Jim Wallis, Writer

"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

"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"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

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