Top 1200 Religious Persecution Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Since the primary motive of the evil is disguise, one of the places evil people are most likely to be found is within the church. What better way to conceal one's evil from oneself, as well as from others, than to be a deacon or some other highly visible form of Christian within our culture? ... I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious. I mean only that evil people tend to gravitate toward piety for the disguise and concealment it can offer them.

I'm not a religious freak, but I do believe that there is a higher power.

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I'm curious.

I don't let my religious world get too complicated.

The truth is, the secular world isn't too enamored with Jesus. And they're not too enamored with someone who is leading people to Jesus. So if you're out there talking about people's sins, and you're talking about righteousness, you will get pushback. Jesus Himself did. The apostles did. I mean, there's persecution all up and down the line.

When I hear that a man is religious, I conclude he is a rascal!

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.

Ive always been a religious person.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally.

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

I never used to charge religious groups.

My father was a religious leader in the community, and my sister is a pastor.

If you elect a religious party into power, you no longer have a democracy.

I'm not exactly a religious person, but I am very spiritual.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

Jesus himself, and most of the message of the Gospels, is a message of service to the poor, a critique of the rich and the powerful, and a pacifist doctrine. And it remained that way, that's what Christianity was up... until Constantine. :Constantine shifted it so the cross, which was the symbol of persecution of somebody working for the poor, was put on the shield of the Roman Empire. It became the symbol for violence and oppression, and that's pretty much what the church has been until the present.

True religious movements prosper and flourish under tribulation.

I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.

Jackson was not a religious man when he came to Lexington.

I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

'RuPaul's Drag Race'... is very little about boys who dress up in girls' clothing: it's very much about grit, integrity, heart, power of perseverance, and the power of love. It's also opening a dialogue up about the persecution and the marginalization of trans people, of queer people, of gender non-binary and gender fluid people.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Honestly, I'm, like, the least religious person in the world.

I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.

It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).

It's obvious that humanity continues to be torn by religious violence.

I am an extremely religious and spiritual person.

There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.

I'm not religious, but I believe that what I have is a gift, and I respect it and live up to it.

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now stand, can be certain that he shall not be soon thrown down from his elevation by criticism or caprice, the common interest of learning requires that her sons should cease from intestine hostilities, and, instead of sacrificing each other to malice and contempt, endeavour to avert persecution from the meanest of their fraternity.

My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

Any kind of religious tyranny concerns me.

Posterity for the philosopher is what the other world is for the religious man.

For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

I'm not a religious person, but I prefer God to money.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

I grew up with a very religious background.

We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others.

Congress has no power to make any religious establishments.

I am more spiritual than religious.

Chord substitution isn't some mysterious religious sect.

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.

I grew up in a religious environment, and I'm proud of it.

All religious and cultural values are not equal to one another.

I don't consider myself a very religious person in any.

We're a very religious country; the government's secular.

I'm not religious, but I like God and he likes me.

I'm not religious, but I feel like there has to be a higher power up there.

I'm not religious, but I understand the need for faith and hope.

Religious concerns ok, if translated into universal values.