Top 1200 Religious History Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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 had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

We know only a single science, the science of history. History can be contemplated from two sides, it can be divided into the history of nature and the history of mankind. However, the two sides are not to be divided off; as long as men exist the history of nature and the history of men are mutually conditioned.

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

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

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

A lot of religious belief - even the majority - involves making factual claims about the world which do come into conflict with science and history. For Christians, a test of this is the Empty Tomb. I ask Christians: 'are you saying that it does not matter - as a matter of fact - whether or not Christ's tomb was empty and that he was resurrected?' At that point, I find that, to a lot of them, it really does matter, despite all the fine talk about not wanting to confuse science and history with religion.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

There's a lot we should be able to learn from history. And yet history proves that we never do. In fact, the main lesson of history is that we never learn the lessons of history. This makes us look so stupid that few people care to read it. They'd rather not be reminded. Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.

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

When I went to high school - that's about as far as I got - reading my U.S. history textbook, well, I got the history of the ruling class. I got the history of the generals and the industrialists and the presidents that didn't get caught. How 'bout you? I got all of the history of the people who owned the wealth of the country, but none of the history of the people that created it.

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

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.

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

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?

This willful deafness to religious argument, so new in our history, has had various effects. A principal one is encouragement of the already widespread view that religion doesn't have a lot to do with modern concerns - the way people live, the way they think.

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

Your country needs religious leaders and religious politicians

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

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

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.

I am opposing it with an idea of the history of philosophy as a history of philosophers, that is, a history of mortal, fragile and limited creatures like you and I. I am against the idea of clean, clearly distinct epochs in the history of philosophy or indeed in anything else. I think that history is always messy, contingent, plural and material. I am against the constant revenge of idealism in how we think about history.

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

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.

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

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.

There has always been interest in certain phases and aspects of history - military history is a perennial bestseller, the Civil War, that sort of thing. But I think that there is a lot of interest in historical biography and what's generally called narrative history: history as story-telling.

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

Most of the ugly wars in history have been wars of religion. And there's nothing more dangerous than someone with religious certitude who creates consequences in the world that to me are simply inexcusable.

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

The fact of the religious vision, and its history of persistent expansion, is our one ground for optimism. Apart from it, human life is a flash of occasional enjoyments lighting up a mass of pain and misery, a bagatelle of transient experience.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

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

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.

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

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.