Top 1200 Patriotic Religious Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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.

A US Department of Education; implementation of a scientific materialist philosophy; studies, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and other features of the bourgeois ideology; students taught on the basis of Marxian dialectical materialism, internationalism and general ethics of a new socialist society; present obsolete methods of teaching will be superseded by a scientific pedagogy. The whole basis and organization of capitalist science will be revolutionized. Science will become materialistic, hence truly scientific. God will be banished from the laboratories as well as from the schools.

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

There is no patriotic art.

The US empowered the Shi'a Islamic political groups and marginalised a big part of Iraq who were recognised as Sunni people. It was only to be expected that the next step would be for the sectarian religious dynamics to surface, for one religious group to be fighting another religious group.

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?

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.

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

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

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.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

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

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.

My family is patriotic.

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

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

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

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.

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

I'm not religious. But I grew up religious in the Bible Belt.

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 think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

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.

...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the US. He said it made him feel more patriotic to dissent from the war aims of his nation. It is at least a counterintuitive position. Most people would not instantly grasp how it is more patriotic to always root against America. White supremacists should try claiming that burning crosses is more supportive of civil rights than not burning them.

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

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.

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.

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

I'm relatively patriotic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

You don't have to be a show-off to be patriotic.

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.

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

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

Most Christmas carols have no obvious religious content, or at least that's noticeable to most people. I mean, it is almost by definition, a cultural phenomenon, all these songs, even though they point to this very religious holiday. They're not religious songs in effect anymore.

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible right, and denied absolutely that a human being is accountable to others for his religious belief. Yet so natural to mankind is intolerance in whatever they really care about, that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realised, except where religious indifference, which dislikes to have its peace disturbed by theological quarrels, has added its weight to the scale.

I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.

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

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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

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.

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

Who is not patriotic can not be considered Portuguese.

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. I'm spiritual. Religious seems too much like a club.

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.

I think religious freedom is part of the U.S.'s policy and Congress mandated the creation of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. So it is important that the U.S. focus in dialogue, development projects, cooperation with Pakistan and other countries to give more importance to religious freedom issues.

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.

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.

I'm hugely patriotic.

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