Top 1200 Religious Fanatics Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

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 found draft resistors very conscientious, reasonable, and not fanatics.

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.

Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

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 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.

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.

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.

Fanatics are, for one thing, boring and, for another, unreliable. They tend to burn out just when you need them.

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

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.

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.

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

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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.

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

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.

Fanatics are defined by their hatreds; free people by their humanity.

I grew up going to football games with my dad and we were just sports fanatics.

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.

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

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

The only ones who make things change are fanatics. If you're not a fanatic around here, you can't cut it.

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.

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, 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.

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple.

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

Absolute certainty is a privilege of uneducated minds and fanatics. - It is, for scientific folk, an unattainable ideal.

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't know.

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

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

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

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

Fanatics have their dreams, wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.

Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs.

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.

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

There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

I'm intrigued by fanatics - people who are seduced by the promise, or the illusion, of the absolute.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

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.

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.

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

Religious institutions should have religious freedom on this issue. No church or minister should ever have to conduct a marriage that is inconsistent with their religious beliefs. But I think as a civil institution, this issue's time has come and we need to move forward.

The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.

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

Phlegmatic natures can be inspired to enthusiasm only by being made into fanatics.

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