Religious Quotes

"And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons"

Tony Campolo, Clergyman

"I am basically a religious man"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"I've been married before, but I've never had my dream wedding in Vegas. I wanted to do it there because it's casual, quick, not religious and, most of all, very romantic"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

"True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"Poverty is everyone's problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty"

Kathleen Blanco, Politician

"You don't have to call it God or Jesus. That's religious humbug to a lot of people, but you've gotta believe that nature and spiritual things surround us. That is what put us here! I thank the universe for that every day of my life"

Jack LaLanne, Athlete

"A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others"

Jena Malone, Actress

"Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day"

Wilhelm Dilthey, Historian

"Every religious pioneer, including Jesus Christ, was persecuted by his contemporaries. But once people understand me, their turn can be dramatic like Saint Paul's"

Sun Myung Moon, Clergyman

"The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"In the first period religious life appears as a form of discipline which the individual or a whole people must accept as an unconditional command without any rational understanding of the ultimate meaning and purpose of that command"

Muhammed Iqbal, Poet

"In times when religious or political faith or hope predominates, the writer functions totally in unison with society, and expresses society's feelings, beliefs, and hopes in perfect harmony"

Juan Goytisolo, Poet

"Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists"

Jack Herer, Activist

"There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious"

Polly Toynbee, Journalist

"The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany"

Otto Schily, Public Servant

"Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people"

Michael Palin, Comedian

"As for the Pope, I am too old to be frightened by his shadow, and am quite sure his shadow or Substance will do less harm to the liberties of my country than will a party, who seek to acquire political power by exciting religious bigotry in the minds of their duped followers"

Ezra Cornell, Businessman

"We religious controllers control in the name of Jesus and it is really painful to people"

Keith Miller, Author

"The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities"

Tom Allen, Politician

"I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years"

Larry Hagman, Actor

"It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty"

Ilka Chase, Actress

"I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes"

Uri Geller, Entertainer

"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

"I mean, I really don't want the federal government to be determining whether or not a person who feels certain ways about the environment or about animals or about certain religious issues should be considered an extremist. That to me is a type of thought control, mind control, which is very dangerous"

Peter King, Politician

"In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us"

Linda Chavez, Author

"Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings"

Jessica Lange, Actress

"There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost"

Moira Kelly, Actress

"I was for two years a pupil at the Model School in Fort street which was then conducted upon the Irish national system, and if any special religious instruction was given in connection with that system, I do not recollect it"

Edmund Barton, Politician

"Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease"

Keith Miller, Author

"Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone"

Luke Ford, Writer

"At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate"

Luke Ford, Writer

"Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift"

Denzel Washington, Actor

"Both French and Latin are involved with nationalistic and religious implications which could not be entirely shaken off, and so, while they seemed for a long time to have solved the international language problem up to a certain point, they did not really do so in spirit"

Edward Sapir, Scientist

"Every non-political human grouping of whatever kind, legal, social, religious, economic or other becomes at last political if it creates an opposition deep enough to range men against one another as enemies"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"There was no religious ceremony connected with marriage among us, while on the other hand the relation between man and woman was regarded as in itself mysterious and holy"

Charles Eastman, Author

"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

"Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period"

Francis Parker Yockey, Writer

"I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix"

Charles Krauthammer, Journalist

"I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

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