Top 1200 Religious Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Religion shows a pattern of heredity which I think is similar to genetic heredity. ... There are hundreds of different religious sects, and every religious person is loyal to just one of these. ... The overwhelming majority just happen to choose the one their parents belonged to. Not the sect that has the best evidence in its favour, the best miracles, the best moral code, the best cathedral, the best stained-glass, the best music when it comes to choosing from the smorgasbord of available religions, their potential virtues seem to count for nothing compared to the matter of heredity.

When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

We have to protect the rights of every person and group to follow their sincere religious belief peacefully without hurting other people.

You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Mum wasn't at all religious, but she thought that going to the theatre was as important a ceremonial, communal experience that a person could have.

The only person, if you're a religious person, who's always right is God. And if you make the mistake of thinking that you, like God, are always right, and that you, like God, always know everything, then it seems to me you're riding for a fall.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

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

I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

Yoga is so universal in its principles and so holistically beneficial, it is possible for any person, young or old, religious or agnostic, to embrace and enjoy a practice.

Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.

According to current research, in the determination of a person's level of happiness, genetics accounts for about 50 percent; life circumstances, such as age, gender, ethnicity, marital status, income, health, occupation, and religious affiliation, account for about 10 to 20 percent; and the remainder is a product of how a person thinks and acts.

The zealous disdain for religion in American jurisprudence amounts to intolerance. Keith Fournier of the American Center for Law and Justice concludes that 'the ones not being tolerated are religious people who dare make any kind of religious reference or take any kind of religious posture outside the private arena.

[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

Once the religious right got their beachhead in the Republican Party in 1980, they expanded it. Even Barry Goldwater was extremely hostile to the religious right, but Reagan catered to them. The religious right then expanded their base and that drove the moderates out.

I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between "religious anger" and "commonplace anger", "religious killing" and "commonplace killing", "religious slandering and irreligious", and so forth.

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

The moral problem of abortion is of a pre religious nature because the genetic code is written in a person at the moment of conception. A human being is there. I separate the topic of abortion from any specifically religious notions. It is a scientific problem. Not to allow the further development of a being which already has all the genetic code of a human being is not ethical. The right to life is the first among human rights. To abort a child is to kill someone who cannot defend himself.

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.

Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is far more powerful than coercion when it comes to promoting one's religious views. . . . Not surprisingly, then, large numbers of religious leaders have supported the Supreme Court in its prayer decisions.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

For as long as I can remember, I've been the kind of person who goes against the grain and questions authority, and that doesn't make for an ideal religious follower.

And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

In the eyes of history, religious toleration is the highest evidence of culture in a people. It was not until the Western nations broke away from their religious law that they became more tolerant, and it was only when the Muslims fell away from their religious law that they declined in tolerance and other evidences of the highest culture.

We owe Christ to the world--to the least person and to the greatest person, to the richest person and to the poorest person, to the best person and to the worst person. We are in debt to the nations.

My mom is very liberal. She has never been religious... spiritual but not religious.

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

I'm not religious. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.

It is true that the Chinese are not so religious as the Hindus, or even as the Japanese; and they are certainly not so religious as the Christian missionaries desire them to be.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

The next person that tells me I'm not religious, I'm going to shove my rosary beads up their ass.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America's first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights. Government's role in society is to protect these rights and ensure that we are safe from religious persecution and discrimination.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.

Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it.

Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.

We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

I do occasionally envy the person who is religious naturally, without being brainwashed into it or suckered into it by all the organized hustles.

From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.