Top 1200 Religious Beliefs Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

The birth of excellence begins with our awareness that our beliefs are a choice. We usually don't think of it that way, but belief can be a conscious choice. You can choose beliefs that limit you, or you can choose beliefs that support you. The trick is to choose the beliefs that are conducive to success and the results you want and to discard the ones that hold you back.

Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

When it comes to controlling human beings, there is no better instrument than lies. Because you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts.

I draw inspiration from my life, and, honestly, a lot of my religious beliefs have stemmed into my music.

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

All religious beliefs seem weird to people not brought up in them.

All acts of terrorism - all killings of the innocent - are an abomination, and one that is made all the worse when the victims are chosen for their skin color, ethnicity, sexuality or religious beliefs.

Christians are increasingly being punished by the government for acting on their sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage that are based on the standard of Scripture.

There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.

Faith is important, even if you're not religious. You need to have beliefs in people or things.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are.

Positive secularism is not tolerance of all religions, but it is the total denial of religious beliefs: it is the emergence of homogeneous human outlook which is based upon verifiable facts of life.

On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.

A judge found it constitutionally intolerable that Louisiana should interject 'religious beliefs and moral judgments into teaching.'

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward religious beliefs... begins.

Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

Tolerating somebody else's beliefs is not failing to criticize them. It's not persecuting them for having those beliefs. That is absolutely important. You should not persecute people for their beliefs. It doesn't mean you can't criticize their beliefs.

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

I know how it feels to be hated because of my religious beliefs.

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Americans are squeamish about anything that seems to punish people for their religious beliefs.

When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

I am perfectly clear in my mind and in my conscience in respect of freedom of religious principles and beliefs.

Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades.

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

I think there's nothing about evolution in the Bible; I think this is a statement of religious insecurity. But people have their beliefs.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious beliefs from contradiction by science. They used to do it by prohibiting teachers from teaching evolution at all; then they wanted to teach intelligent design as an alternative theory; now they want the supposed "weaknesses" in evolution pointed out. But it's all the same program - it's all an attempt to let religious ideas determine what is taught in science courses.

Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

No woman should have her personal health care decisions dictated by the religious beliefs of her boss.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

[T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

[I]t is difficult to imagine a set of beliefs more suggestive of mental illness than those that lie at the heart of many of our religious traditions.

The first duty of a government is to maintain law and order so that the life, property, and religious beliefs of its subjects are fully protected by the State.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Religious liberty is misunderstood. It simply means that the Founders said that everyone in America should have the freedom to practice and exercise their religion. Not to believe it but to exercise our beliefs - to act on our beliefs. It's not about believing privately in your head, privately in that building, or simply about freedom of worship.

Over time, we amass limiting beliefs about how life supposedly is - beliefs that are not valid. Then we allow these limiting beliefs to stop us from fully living our happiest lives.

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

The Alchemists’ beliefs are my beliefs,” I say quickly. She arched an eyebrow. “Are they? I would hope your beliefs would be your beliefs.” I’d never thought about it that way before, but I suddenly hoped desperately that her words were true.

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.