Quotes about religious
religious taken men
The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailors' Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather. Henry David Thoreau
religious mean heart
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets. Henry David Thoreau
religious believer rascals
Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
religious diversity hell
Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings. Jessica Lange
religious thinking groups
I don't think religious groups should be allowed to apply for federal funds to start new ministries they have not been doing before the funding was available. Jerry Falwell
religious humor law
Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton. Jerry Falwell
religious believe humor
I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehavior does not qualify him or her for minority status. Blacks, Hispanics, women, etc., are God-ordained minorities who do indeed deserve minority status. Jerry Falwell
religious humor land
The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior. Jerry Falwell
religious humor gay
Look at the Metropolitan Community Church today, the gay church, almost accepted into the World Council of Churches. Almost, the vote was against them. But they will try again and again until they get in, and the tragedy is that they would get one vote. Because they are spoken of here in Jude as being brute beasts, that is going to the baser lust of the flesh to live immorally, and so Jude describes this as apostasy. But thank God this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven. Jerry Falwell
religious humor issues
This is probably as bad a day as the court has had on social issues since "Roe v Wade." Jerry Falwell
religious writing years
I have spent the last 30 years forming the religious right. I write a letter every week and send a newspaper every month to 200,000 pastors who are broadly called evangelicals, bringing them up to date on what is happening in Washington, in the state capitals, in the culture, and what we need to do about it. And of course I'm criticized for it, and of course I have calculated the positives and the negatives, but I have long been at peace with what I do. Jerry Falwell
religious humor america
I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be late, but it is never too late to do what is right. We need an old-fashioned, God-honoring, Christ-exalting revival to turn American back to God. America can be saved! Jerry Falwell
religious humor practice
The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc. Jerry Falwell
religious believe school
I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable. Jerry Falwell
religious humor blame
The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this. Jerry Falwell
religious devil argument
Religious contention is the devil's harvest. Jean de La Fontaine
religious people worst
The worst thing about religion was religious people. Jeffrey Eugenides
religious jesus matter
It doesn't matter if you're religious or not. Does anything make you feel more uncomfortable than some stranger going, I'd like to talk to you about Jesus? Jim Gaffigan
religious men enterprise
All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious. Jesse Helms
religious psychological-needs giving
Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from the kind of films I like to make. A film like The Terminator is consciously meant to give a sense of empowerment to the individual. James Cameron
religious eye heart
...when men ignite in their hearts a religious fury, they inflict at the same time a blindness on their eyes. James A. Michener
religious party issues
I kept careful record of the impact of religion on the election in my county. The religious issue permeated every meeting I conducted. It influenced Republicans and Democrats alike. Ministers preached politics publicly and churches distributed the most vicious electioneering materials. Practically no one I met escaped the pressure of this overriding problem and both parties were ultimately forced to make their major calculations with the religious question a foremost consideration. James A. Michener
religious men atheism
I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. James A. Michener
religious hatred atheism
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. James A. Michener
religious government organization
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government. James A. Garfield
religious war race
If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind. Jack Vance
religious ideas community
Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune. Christopher Hitchens
religious views justice
There are many, many discrepant views within the Shia theology about what's the proper role of religion in society or in the State, should it rule now, should it claim to govern people in the here and now, or should it wait until the Messiah, the 12th Imam, comes back and would it only be then appropriate for religious rule to bring about a world of universal justice and vindication. Christopher Hitchens
religious book ideas
My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd. Christopher Hitchens
religious children found
My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them. Christopher Hitchens
religious roots evil
Judaism is not just one more religion, but in its way the root of religious evil Christopher Hitchens
religious art pain
The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to see how long they could keep someone alive while being roasted. It is not needful to go into further details, but there were also religious books of instruction in this art, and guides for the detection of heresy by pain. Christopher Hitchens
religious atheism trying
I don't want them (religious followers) trying to inflict their belief on me. Christopher Hitchens