Religious Quotes

"Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals"

Abdolkarim Soroush, Philosopher

"Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God"

John Tyler, President

"I hope I never get so old I get religious"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us"

Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Politician

"I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others"

Richard Chamberlain, Actor

"I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace"

David Trimble, Politician

"Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles"

Lafcadio Hearn, Author

"My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious"

Leonard Nimoy, Actor

"The amount of things I have been through and the remarkable ways in which the body has reacted is just phenomenal. No wonder I became religious, because you don't know why something's happening to you and you don't know how you bounced back"

Amitabh Bachchan, Actor

"In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs"

David Herbert Donald, Historian

"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious"

Bjorn Ulvaeus, Musician

"The Catholic Church - it's so difficult because I don't want say anything offensive but it makes me very angry that religious leaders from this faith have tried to respond negatively to sexual education and to the promotion of condom use"

Emma Thompson, Actress

"On September 11, the murders of World Trade Center employees and visitors took the lives of numerous nationalities, ethnic groups and religious followers"

Cliff Stearns, Politician

"So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education"

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, Politician

"For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom"

Muqtada al Sadr, Clergyman

"The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men"

John Aubrey, Writer

"Let them be reassured, it has never been one of our intentions to ban religion in society, but solely to protect the national education system from any conspicuous display of religious affiliation"

Jean-Pierre Raffarin, Politician

"Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity"

Henry Beston, Writer

"Religious advertising is undergoing a dramatic conversion"

Lisa Miller, Musician

"I protect my skin with sunscreen and am religious about keeping my face moisturized and properly protected all day, so I also use a face lotion with SPF 30"

Amanda Beard, Athlete

"Being a purely instrumental album, it makes a musical statement, not a religious one, and I hope that people can feel the emotion of the great melodies, even without the words"

Kenny G, Musician

"I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, 'Joe down the street is gay and he's a great guy.'"

Jason Priestley, Actor

"We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about"

Max Cannon, Artist

"I got one letter at the very beginning, like, in the first season, saying - from a woman who was very religious, very Christian, saying how wrong she thought the show was, but she thinks it's the funniest show on television"

Sean Hayes, Actor

"Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political"

Ignazio Silone, Author

"The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected"

Mike Ferguson, Politician

"I find it greatly disturbing that the Bush administration has used political and religious ideologies to influence national policy on science and medicine"

Tammy Baldwin, Politician

"The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

"During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it"

J. G. Stedman, Soldier

"It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet"

Sam Brownback, Politician

"Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her"

James Hal Cone, Theologian

"I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing"

Marty Robbins, Musician

"That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest"

Charles Tupper, Statesman

"I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody"

Mojo Nixon, Musician

"Al Qaeda is nothing more than a mutant supply chain. They're playing off the same platform as Wal-Mart and Dell. They're just not restrained by it. What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain. That's what we're up against in Iraq. We're up against a suicide supply chain"

Thomas Friedman, Journalist

"I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma"

Marcia Wallace, Actress

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