Religious Quotes

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

Today's Islamic fundamentalism is also a cover for political motifs. We should not overlook the political motifs we encounter in forms of religious fanaticism.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them.

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Syria should not belong to one family, to one coterie, or to one party. It belongs to all the people of Syria equally, in all their religious and ethnic diversity.

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

My grandfather was Orthodox, and he was religious, but neither of my parents were. Of course, as they got older, it seems like they get more religious the older they get, even though they're still not practicing Jews.

In America, we're trying to find a peaceful solution in the Middle East and we're not going to be divided along any lines, including religious lines, including ethnic backgrounds.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage; doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

I am not a religious person, but I am spiritual. But I don't believe in things like guilt.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes.

No religious position is loyally served by refusing to consider annoying theories which may well turn out to be facts.

Not all Modern Orthodox Jews, at the present juncture, identify with what the Israeli government does. In Israel many religious Zionists strongly oppose the government because of the disengagement.

I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not religious and I don't have idols, so something has to drive me.

I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

The country has become much more conservative, partly because it's been taken over by the religious right.

The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values.

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

I'm a very religious person.

Starbucks says they are going to start putting religious quotes on cups. The very first one will say, 'Jesus! This cup is expensive!'

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

I am the indoctrinated child of two lapsed Irish Catholics. Which is to say: I am not religious.

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

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.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish.

I am a believer, but I affirm that in public buildings the law of the Republic overrides religious rules.

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Of course the case of the Christian Church planted among the nations must differ, in various ways, from that of any sect forming in connection with religious awakening in a territory of professing Christianity.

If religious people deny paradise to their opponents or to 'non-believers,' atheists would likewise seek to eliminate 'dangerous' believers with their 'childish' ways and their heads in the clouds.

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

In the 20th century, the Muslim world created a vision of religious nationalism. Turkey, for example, had to be ethnically Turkish. Kurds, Armenians, other minorities didn't have a place in such a vision of a nation-state.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

When you have increasing power of religious groups, oppression of women increases. Women are oppressed in all religions.

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.

Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.

I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present danger to humanity.

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.

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

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush administration was more cynical than messianic.

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

The Boy Scouts of America is no longer entirely what people think it is. Essentially, it has been hijacked by religious conservatives.

And also a lot of Muslims are no more religious then the average Swede. For them it's natural that human rights come first.

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

The left and right are not religious categories. They're often not even value categories.

I didn't have a very religious family.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

Every science is a profane restatement of the preceding dogmas of the religious period.