Top 1200 Religious Texts Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

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

Faith begins where religious pretension ends

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

There are homophobic people in my family. They're deeply religious.

I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

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

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

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

No religious doctrine shall be established by law.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

I was raised Catholic in a very religious family.

Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, Elie Wiesel is also the author of more than 40 books. As relevant as anything to today's discussion are the insights into the Biblical texts that are contained in his lectures and books. They include Messengers of God [1976], Five Biblical Portraits [1978] and his just-published Wise Men and Their Tales - Portraits of Biblical, Talmudic and Hasidic Masters.

It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.

I was a very religious teenager, and I moved away from that.

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

I've never thought of myself as a religious person.

A Muslim should be sincerely religious AND politically aware.

I'm not a religious person. The language of photography is symbolic.

I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing.

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

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

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

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

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

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

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

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.

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

Religious freedom is a fundamental human right.

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

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

Politics and religious leaders [are hindered] by their egotism.

I never used to charge religious groups.

In Germany representatives of the Islamic communities try to hijack children who are born here, along with the entire Islamic community, to prevent them from being influenced by the society which has taken them in. Children born here are like blank sheets on which you can write European or Islamic texts. Muslim representatives want to raise their children as if they don't even live in Europe.

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

Religious hatreds tend to be merciless and absolute.

Religious freedom sits at the core of who we are as Americans.

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

I've been a little disappointed in directors in America. I'm really after a theater that doesn't just deal with the actual texts that I brought in. But with a director that really deals with images too, that takes the play to another level. We have to remember that theater takes place in the third dimension, and we have to take into consideration the visual aspect of the play. I think images are important for the theater. Because I do write images.

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

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 am also really into religious artifacts.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

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

I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

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

There's no such thing as being a cultural Jew. You're religious or you're not.

I am more spiritual than religious.

I am an extremely religious and spiritual person.

Even at this stage, my preparations were like strapping on a parachute in an airplane that was about to crash; the whole time I was preparing to hurl myself out the door, I clung to the hope that something would happen at the last minute to forestall that terrible necessity I felt-not hostility, as psychiatric texts would say, or vengeful rage, or a desire for attention. This was done in secret, out of a need to alleviate pain which was as implacable as thirst.

The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

O prejudice, prejudice, prejudice, how many hast thou destroyed! Men who might have been wise have remained fools because they thought they were wise. Many judge what the gospel ought to be, but do not actually enquire as to what it is. They do not come to the Bible to obtain their views of religion, but they open that Book to find texts to suit the opinions which they bring to it. They are not open to the honest force of truth, and therefore are not saved by it.

Al-Aksa is a religious and national symbol.

I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.