Top 1200 Great Religious Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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.

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

In its main features the Declaration of Independence is a great spiritual document. It is a declaration not of material but of spiritual conceptions. Equality, liberty, popular sovereignty, the rights of man - these are not elements which we can see and touch. They are ideals. They have their source and their roots in the religious convictions. They belong to the unseen world. Unless the faith of the American people in these religious convictions is to endure, the principles of our Declaration will perish. We can not continue to enjoy the result if we neglect and abandon the cause.

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

According to my religious belief, I'm sorry if you feel like I'm pushing this on you - my religious belief is that you behave the way God wants us to behave. And that's simply love God and love one another. If we did that, there would be no need for any of the other commandments. It would be great. But in the same vein, we would have obtained paradise by that point. And it's tougher to get to paradise by that point.

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.

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

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.

My teaching - of what is perceived to be a complex and foreign sounding religious philosophy - has become the target for people's prejudice and religious intolerance.

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

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

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.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face!

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a private thing.

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

You can somehow get access to what is perceived to be a better school by either being religious or appearing to be religious. That is unfair.

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it.

We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.

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

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

Objecting to someone because of his religious beliefs is not the same thing as prejudice based on religious heritage, race, or gender.

If Muslims want to take their disputes to religious arbitrators because they genuinely believe that it's a matter of great spiritual importance that they do that, they shouldn't be the only community in this country that's denied the opportunity to do that. Because the Jewish population has been entitled to take their disputes to tribunals known as the Beth Din for over one hundred years, and the Church of England is integrated into the fabric of this country, and there are ecclesiastical tribunals where religious disputes can be dealt with.

Love is not easy. All great religions postulate love as one of the greatest accomplishments. If it were that easy, or as easy as most people think, certainly, the great religious leaders would have been rather naive.

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.

Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

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

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

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

Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life.

I am a God-fearing person. Ours is a religious family and I respect all religious gurus.

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

Foresight has been a distinguishing characteristic of all truly great political, religious, and social betterment leaders.

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

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

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.

The world is polarizing over religion. It is getting both more religious and less religious at the same time.

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

The ACLU's various policies regarding religious freedom in public schools are a revealing collection of anti-religious bias.

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.

There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

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.

LAUGHTER is the very essence of religion. Seriousness is never religious, cannot be religious. Seriousness is of the ego, part of the very disease. Laughter is egolessness. Yes, there is a difference between when you laugh and when a religious man laughs. The difference is that you laugh always about others - the religious man laughs at himself, or at the whole ridiculousness of man's being. Religion cannot be anything other than a celebration of life.

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.

There are times when the art world seems like a religious empire. There are great cathedral galleries and pilgrimage sites where treasured art pieces are displayed like holy relics, and this can certainly be a great pleasure on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

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.

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?

Religious liberty is the salt and light that has made us the great nation we are in a whole number of ways.

The declaration that religious faith shall be unpunished does not give immunity to criminal acts dictated by religious error.

For a great nature, it is a happiness to escape a religious training; religion of character is so apt to be invaded.

To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.

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

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes 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'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

Tibet, why is it occupied? For political reasons maybe they have a reason. I don't know. But religiously, why? The fact that the religious community is being oppressed and persecuted is something that every single person in the world who has any religious faith and religious feeling for - for people who have faith should speak up.

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

You don't have to be a religious person to be affected by religion or a religious movement.

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

Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.