Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right…

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to…

— Karen Armstrong

Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the…

— Karen Armstrong

I think there is unnecessary conflict right now between the vehemently religious and the LGBT community. The extremes of religion I think and the…

— John Amaechi

The true destiny of America is religious, not political: it is spiritual, not physical.

— Alvin R. Dyer

Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.

— Walter F. Mondale

America seems to be at once the most religious and the most secular of all nations.

— Will Herberg

Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to…

— Bill Maher

In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to…

— Edwin Gaustad

The idea of America's religious groups fighting over the limited public money to be made available takes us down the road towards the kind…

— David Saperstein

We call on all members of America's religious communities, as a testament of our common faith, to join Faithful Security, and to take action…

— William Sloane Coffin

“The myth of America’s religious founding thus provided an explanation for those who needed to sanctify the past before they could go forward with…

— Steven K. Green

Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every…

— John F. Kennedy

“America was always a religious country, and it remains the most religious of industrialized Western democracies. America derived its strength from religion, not secularism.”

— Dennis Prager

“People say that America has no religion, but it's the opposite: America has every religion, all the old ones, and produces more new ones…

— Michael Muhammad Knight

“In short, when it comes to colonial America, religious persecution—in the sense of persecution both based in religion and aimed at religion—was as American…

— John Corvino