Quotes about religious
religious freedom truth
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle. George Washington
religious individual-happiness law
Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness.
religious government support
While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
religious atheist inspiration
The Bible is a wonderful source of inspiration for those who don't understand it. George Santayana
religious language speak
To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.
religious soul atheism
Religious doctrines would do well to withdraw their pretension to be dealing with matters of fact. That pretension is not only the source of the conflicts of religion with science and the vain and bitter controversies of sects; it is also the cause of the impurity and incoherence of religion in the soul.
religious opportunity political
The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity. George Pell
religious men lessons
I'm as religious as the next man - which is to say I'll keep in with the local parson for form's sake and read the lessons on feast-days because my tenants expect it, but I've never been fool enough to confuse religion with belief in God. That's where so many clergymen... go wrong George MacDonald Fraser
religious wonderful-friends people
I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does. George Meyer
religious humorous israel
Long before the word Zionism was uttered for the first time, old religious Jews came from all over the world to die in Jerusalem. It is the finest place to die in - it has always been acknowledged. It has a joie de mourir quite its own. George Mikes
religious atheist talking
The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else. Fyodor Dostoevsky
religious atheist believe
A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul. Friedrich Nietzsche
religious ignorant hell
Your god is dead and only the ignorant weep. And if you claim there is a hell, then we shall meet there!
religious atheist philosophical
After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
religious people religion
People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.
religious giving want
God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do. John Ruskin
religious brother winning
I also see the world of religion. I see some of my brothers and sisters trying to be religious without being fully human. They seem a little rigid and narrow at times, wanting to be holy, but not human. They seem to be winning a place in heaven, without realizing or enjoying the beauty of earth. They keep the ten commandments, but their observances look so joyless. Such a world seems small and the air in that world is stale. John Powell
religious jesus heaven
Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore. John Prine
religious views people
Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views. John Polkinghorne
religious heaven faithful
I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance of the duties allotted to me in the station to which I have been called. John Quincy Adams
religious law giving
The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.
religious liberty foundation
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
religious law moral
The Law given from Sinai [The Ten Commandments] was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.
religious men law
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.
religious warfare world
Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of our times with materials of more fatal explosion, and the butchers of mankind no longer travel to another world for instruments of cruelty and destruction.
religious business 4th-of-july
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made for a moral and religious people... it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other...
religious squares atheism
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference. John Paul Stevens
religious wall government
Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.
religious light religion
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. John Milton
religious eye blow
And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light. There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear As may, with sweetness, through mine ear Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
religious light feet
But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.
religious thinking political-opinions
I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. Norm MacDonald
religious rocks rock-music
I grew up in a religious family, and we weren't allowed to listen to rock music. Mike White