Top 1200 Religious Fundamentalism Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 truly believe that fundamentalism stems from unemployment. A man without a job is desperate; he doesn't want to live anyway.

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

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.

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

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

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.

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

I remain optimistic. What we've seen in Europe and the rest of the world is that freedom has a much stronger attraction than radical fundamentalism.

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.

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

Well, I think the worst part about tribalism is its tendency to fundamentalize, and if I can fight fundamentalism in any of its forms I'm happy.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Fundamentalism does mean reading quite conservatively and literally, saying 'the Bible is the word of God and we have to follow it. What it says is this.'

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

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.

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

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

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.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

I wouldn't give up on Russia. I think they have legitimate security concerns from Islamic fundamentalism, not only on their border but in their country.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.

Statistics on religious affiliation are notoriously slippery: the government isn't allowed to gather such data, and the membership claims of religious organizations aren't entirely reliable.

We must first be able to look honestly at fundamentalism in our own backyard, if we are to have any hope of weeding it out.

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

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?

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

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

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

I have tried reading the Bible but that's a tough read there. I watch a lot of religious documentaries. I have a keen interest in religion for someone who's not religious.

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

Americans deserve to have their religious beliefs and practices protected. Religious freedom is too important to be trampled by insensitive bureaucracy or bad policy.

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.

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

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

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

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

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

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

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

The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.