Top 1200 Religious Persecution Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

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.

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

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

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

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

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.

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

Preaching, power, and persecution are all apart of who we are.

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.

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.

There is no truth sure enough to justify 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.

Persecution is a very easy form of virtue.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

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.

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

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

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.

What does that mean - you're religious? Everybody is religious.

Persecution matures young rebels.

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.

Popularity has killed more prophets than persecution.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'm not a stranger to the persecution that Muslims have faced over the years.

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

Persecution for opinion is the master vice of society.

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.

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.

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

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.

Persecution shows who is a hireling, and who a true pastor.

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.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.

A man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.

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

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

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 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.

Persecution is the heirloom of the church, and the ensign of the elect.

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

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.

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

Where religion is trivialized, one is unlikely to find persecution.

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.

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.

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.

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

Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution.

An interesting thing about the religious people who run Iran is that one of their problems with Ahmadinejad, who they thought would be one of their guys because he's so religious, is that he actually has some really nutty ideas about religion. He's too religious. He's too literal. I mean, there are plenty of people in Iran who like Ahmadinejad's religious beliefs, just as there are plenty of Christian fundamentalists in America who like George W. Bush's beliefs. But there are also plenty of people who are very uncomfortable with his overt religiosity.

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

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