Religious Quotes · Page 188

I argue against literal interpretation of religious doctrines. Religions make progress when they emancipate themselves from literalism, and take their doctrinal statements…

— Philip Kitcher

Is it your thought that I despise some of these, while I love the others? I tell you, I despise nothing. None…

— Neale Donald Walsch

In his second term, [Ronald] Reagan completed the work of his first term - the rich got really rich, everything was deregulated,…

— Kate Clinton

It is a lesson we all need - to let alone the things that do not concern us. He has other ways…

— Katharine Drexel

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as…

— Isak Dinesen

My scientist friends have come up with things like 'principles of uncertainty' and dark holes. They're willing to live inside imagined hypotheses…

— Richard Rohr

Religious believers of the world, you are free to continue to debate the simple, narrow question that divides you from atheists, but…

— Steve Allen

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some…

— J. C. Ryle

The religious situation of our people is very unstable. This is because of the lack of religious teachers and other dedicated people.…

— Totaram Sanadhya

The First thing to understand about the universe is that no condition is "good" or "bad." It just is. So stop making…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Jesus is apt to come, into the very midst of life at its most real and inescapable moments. Not in a blaze…

— Frederick Buechner

“The science of a religious man must be scientific; the religion of a scientific man must be religious.”

— Fulton J. Sheen

[The founding fathers] believed that freedom of expression included religious views and beliefs, so long as the government did not force people…

— John Cornyn

From the very beginning the president [of USA] had two very important principles that had to be reconciled. One principle is that…

— Jacob Lew

“The tears of joy someone sheds because of you, are the only holy water to build the world anew.”

— Abhijit Naskar

America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.

— Rush Limbaugh

Do not seek earthly glory in any matter, for it is extinguished for him who loves it. In its time it blows…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There…

— Barack Obama

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

— Mark Twain

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies,…

— George Whitefield

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

— Richard Chamberlain

I was adopted into an extremely right-wing religious family.

— Brianna Wu

One of the worst consequences politically would be for the majority of Democrats to vote for someone who, in the near future,…

— Ralph Neas

People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.

— Josh Trank

What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able…

— Michael Phelps

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

— Richard Rodriguez

We did not lack for religious leaders to urge us into "godly" war [...]. All of this was part of a well-financed…

— Eustace Mullins

“The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is…

— Violette Nakhjavani

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was…

— Janet Jackson

For the first time in a long time, our leaders in Washington understand what Americans of all religious backgrounds have long held…

— John Ashcroft

No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has…

— Carl Jung

When you hear that your neighbor or friend has reproached you in your absence or presence, then show love and praise him.

— John Climacus

In the past few months I've become religious, I've started to believe in god, creationism and intelligent design, and the reason that…

— Stewart Lee

Culturally speaking, I was raised in a Jewish household. In addition to the religious side of it, I was taught respect for…

— Woody Allen

I think I have one answer, that is partly religious and partly secular; and that is to say, we ought to at…

— Reinhold Niebuhr

And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and…

— Ronald Reagan

If psychoanalysis was late 19th century secular Judaism’s way of finding spiritual meaning in a post-religious world, and retail is the late…

— David Rakoff

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday…

— Randa Abdel-Fattah

Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has…

— Emma Goldman