Quotes about religious
religious views government
The state, frankly, could care less. Historically, the state has been able to use any religious point of view for its own ends. . . . The examples of government misusing religion are endless. Peter McWilliams
religious world modern
I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world. Pete Townshend
religious prayer religion
Prayer TV looks like pay TV to me.
religious years america
Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties. Pete Seeger
religious philosophical political
I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.
religious men years
In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo. Phil Ochs
religious funny-things psychopath
It's a funny thing, when you talk to God, you're religious, but when he talks to you, you're a psychopath. Peter Steele
religious acceptance animal
With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them. Peter Singer
religious sex lying
All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.
religious children teaching
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious. Polly Toynbee
religious evil christianity
No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity. Pierre Bayle
religious thinking priorities
More than any religious figure that I can think of, Dalai Lama goes out of his way to attend interfaith conferences; religious harmony is one of his urgent priorities in life. Pico Iyer
religious teaching uprising
So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching. Phillip E. Johnson
religious jesus people
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day. Philip Yancey
religious jesus feet
When Jesus came to earth, demons recognized him, the sick flocked to him, and sinners doused his feet and head with perfume. Meanwhile he offended pious Jews with their strict preconceptions of what God should be like. Their rejection makes me wonder, could religious types be doing just the reverse now? Could we be perpetuating an image of Jesus that fits our pious expectations but does not match the person portrayed so vividly in the Gospels?
religious political church
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ. Pope Benedict XVI
religious responsibility building-up
A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
religious character liberty
The growing tide of anti-Semitism shocks the conscious of everyone who values freedom, and the ugly, hateful acts particularly stain the character of democracies where liberty and religious freedom are supposed to be respected. Mike Ferguson
religious war messages
If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this. That's my message. Moustapha Akkad
religious prayer opportunity
Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world Mother Teresa
religious thinking religion
Found a shaman in a diaper with a poppy pot. When I asked if he was cold, he said just think hot. Jimmy Buffett
religious religion graduates
I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
religious religion church
I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.
religious people belief
They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief. Jim Shaw
religious children tvs
I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in. Jim Parsons
religious father people
It is contrary to the principles of reason and justice that any should be compelled to contribute to the maintenance of a church with which their consciences will not permit them to join, and from which they can derive no benefit; for remedy whereof, and that equal liberty as well religious as civil, may be universally extended to all the good people of this commonwealth. George Mason
religious thinking theatre
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience. Emily Mortimer
religious gentleman opera
Excepting a religious ceremonial, there is no occasion where greater dignity of manner is required of ladies and gentlemen both, than in occupying a box at the opera. For a gentleman especially no other etiquette is so exacting. Emily Post
religious army soul
I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum. Elvis Presley
religious religion knees
Take your troubles to the Chapel, get down on your knees and pray. Your burdens will be lighter, and you'll surely find the way.
religious self giving
If believers feel that their faith is trivialized and their true selves compromised by a society that will not give religious imperatives special weight, their problem is not that secularists are antidemocratic but that democracy is antiabsolutist. Ellen Willis
religious talking years
So when modern-day religious conservatives wax nostalgic about how marriage is a sacred tradition that reaches back into history for thousands of uninterrupted years, they are absolutely correct, but in only one respect-only if they happen to be talking about Judaism. Elizabeth Gilbert
religious law purpose
Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.