Religious Quotes

"Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'"

Conan O'Brien, Entertainer

"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

"I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious"

Donna Mills, Actress

"The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life"

Abraham Cahan, Author

"What happens is that people who are very religious but who are not in touch with reality, cannot be spiritual"

Keith Miller, Author

"I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day"

Luke Ford, Writer

"Reject racial or religious hate. Embrace moderate Islam"

Geraldo Rivera, Journalist

"The modern dilemma is essentially a spiritual one, and every one of its main aspects, moral, political and scientific, brings us back to the need of a religious solution"

Christopher Dawson, Writer

"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

"The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb"

Charles Eastman, Author

"I think every man who is not a religious moron likes when a woman is comfortable with watching a porn movie"

Izabella Scorupco, Actress

"At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"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

"Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances"

Richard Mentor Johnson, Politician

"While few religious leaders and scholars would doubt the commonalities that exist among the various religious groups, the followers of these religions unfortunately struggle in their effort to peacefully coexist"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society"

Jack Kingston, Politician

"The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction"

Henry James Sumner Maine, Historian

"I'm pretty much a good Catholic girl at heart, and I believe in family. I also have a basic belief that God takes care of me. I believe in prayer, even though I'm not that religious. I just have that foundation from my family. I mean when you think that you're just a human being and one of God's creatures, you can't take anything that seriously"

Catherine O'Hara, Actress

"Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection"

Alexander Cockburn, Lawyer

"To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher"

Arthur Holly Compton, Scientist

"The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance"

Robert Bork, Public Servant

"We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, I'd think, how awful"

Karen Armstrong, Writer

"The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses"

Hernando Cortes, Leader

"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

"I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer"

Francis W. Newman, Writer

"Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning"

Armstrong Williams, Journalist

"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be"

Amy Lee, Musician

"That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what"

Robyn Hitchcock, Musician

"Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life"

Robert Casey, Politician

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs"

Alcee Hastings, Politician

"We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same"

David Horowitz, Writer

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