We [Americans] have secularized the public life of our…

When, for example, in the name of non-discrimination, people try to force the Catholic Church to change her position on homosexuality or the ordination…

— Pope Benedict XVI

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection…

— Swami Vivekananda

None of my paintings I would say are religious.

— Akiane Kramarik

I'm not a practicing Catholic now. I didn't like what the church was doing with what Jesus had said, in a way. But I…

— Pete Postlethwaite

When you say religious, a gate goes down in people's minds that have sensitivities to that word - for whatever reason, whatever experience they've…

— Jonathan Roumie

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

— Meghan O'Rourke

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

— Julian Ovenden

You ever hear girls say that? "I'm not religious, but I'm spiritual." I like to reply with "I'm not honest, but you're interesting!"

— Daniel Tosh

I wouldn't say I'm a religious person, but I am definitely inclined toward asking the big questions.

— Peter Hedges

I don't want to discredit people's opinions of me, but you talk about the violin or the cello or lead guitar where you have…

— Bonnie Raitt

Remember this, and remember this well: when someone is telling the TRUTH and exposing information that is meant to be hidden from the masses,…

— Suzy Kassem

The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because…

— John Ruskin

Marriage is honourable, as you say; and if so, wherefore should Cuckoldom be a Discredit, being deriv'd from so honourable a Root?

— William Congreve

I learned quickly that if the student’s perception is that you’re not listening to them, and not understanding them, they discredit you.

— Tim Gunn

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing with the same result over and over again, expecting something different. The left just spent…

— Rush Limbaugh