Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Smith

I believe that my connection to my higher power, is separate from everybody else's. I don't believe that the Muslims have all the answers and I don't believe the Christians or the Jews have all the answers.

Warren E. Burger

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

Warren E. Burger

The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

Vladimir Lenin

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Wayne Dyer

My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.

Virginia Woolf

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bennett

I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.

William Bennett

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

William Bennett

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

William Bennett

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

William Bennett

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

William Bennett

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

William Bennett

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

William Bennett

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

William Bennett

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

William Bennett

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

William Bennett

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

William Bennett

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

William Blake

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

William Blake

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

Walid Jumblatt

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Samuel Chase

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion... .

Samuel Chase

By our form of Government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed on the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How many of our virtues originate in the fear of Death & that while we flatter ourselves that we are melting in Christian Sensibility over the sorrows of our human Brethren and Sisteren, we are in fact, tho' perhaps unconsciously, moved at the prospect of our own End for who sincerely pities Sea-sickness, Toothache, or a fit of the Gout in a lusty Good-liver of 50?

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I dislike the frequent use of the word virtue, instead of righteousness, in the pulpit; in prayer or preaching before a Christian community, it sounds too much like pagan philosophy.

Salman Rushdie

When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

Salman Rushdie

The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.

Salman Rushdie

What kind of Christmas present would Jesus ask Santa for?

Ryan Tedder

Writing songs is about trying to connect with people on a deeper spiritual level - but I'm not a fan of contemporary Christian music.

Rudolf Steiner

To understand the nature of love – that is to be a true Christian.