Religious Quotes

"Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act"

"My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it"

Amber Tamblyn, Actress

"I was obsessed with religious questions, the basics: Why are we here? Why is the world so beautiful?"

Anne Rice, Novelist

"Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious"

Ramakrishna, Leader

"Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired"

Robert Kennedy, Politician

"I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious"

Francesca Annis, Actress

"So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues"

Huston Smith, Theologian

"When many astronauts go to space, they see the insignificant size of the earth and vastness of space, and they become very religious, because they have seen the Signs of Allah"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock"

Theodore Parker, Theologian

"It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control"

Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer

"However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that they must be called religious"

Garrett Hardin, Environmentalist

"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight"

Chris Hughes, Entrepreneur

"Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others"

Georg Solti, Musician

"At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on"

Robert Stone, Novelist

"There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few"

Van Wyck Brooks, Critic

"I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer"

Stephen Collins, Actor

"Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic"

Michael Shermer, Writer

"There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true"

Francois Fenelon, Clergyman

"Yet through history gays have always dominated religious life and churches"

Malcolm Boyd, Clergyman

"Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else"

Walter Koenig, Actor

"With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying"

Frederick Law Olmsted, Architect

"Realizing that they can't get their agenda across: against religious liberty, against a culture of life, they can't get those issues across through the legislature, as people respond and their elected officials represent them, so they attempt to do it through the courts"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"That man is a religious being, is universally conceded, for it has been seen to be universally true"

Simon Greenleaf, Judge

"The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like"

Bruce Kent, Activist

"Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it"

Tom Flynn, Celebrity

"I'm very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it's political or religious or whatever"

Peter Krause, Actor

"So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative"

Robert Barclay, Writer

"Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life"

David Hackworth, Soldier

"A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster"

John Kasich, Politician

"Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance"

Louis Leakey, Scientist

"In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse"

Mary Garden

"A man is as old as his arteries and his interests. If he permits his economic, religious, or social arteries to harden, or loses interest in whatever concerns mankind... he will need only six feet of earth"

Josephus Daniels, Politician

"It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation"

Louis Finkelstein, Clergyman

"So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching"

Phillip E. Johnson, Educator

"Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter struggle, even when it seemingly was neutral"

Salvatore Quasimodo, Author

"I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means"

Barbara Walters, Journalist

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