Religious Quotes · Page 294

[T]he bill exceeds the rightful authority to which governments are limited by the essential distinction between civil and religious functions, and violates…

— James Madison

From a constitutional standpoint, the religion of a candidate is supposed to make no difference. Even before the founding fathers dreamed up…

— Noah Feldman

Arranged marriages are big business in the U.K. Second- and third-generation immigrant families, with no extended family structure, limited networks and religious…

— Jemima Khan

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will…

— Coleman Barks

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.

— Yasmin Mogahed

My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,…

— Chinua Achebe

The Palestinians are a despotic, undemocratic grouping which promotes a religious war against Israel, a democracy, through terror.

— Melanie Phillips

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

— Neale Donald Walsch

In the true order of things one does not do something in order to be happy-one is happy and, hence, does something.…

— Neale Donald Walsch

The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly,…

— Christopher Hitchens

Religious strictures are often the source of attitudes toward nudity. Society urges the wearing of clothing partially as a means of controlling…

— Patricia Garfield

God has been faithful and just, as He always is. He's been my best friend. Allowed me to come to Him on…

— Anonymous

I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was…

— Salman Rushdie

It is in the highest interests of the devil to persuade the world that religious people are disagreeable.

— Hubert Van Zeller

Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are…

— Charles Colson

Do not think about or do anything without a spiritual purpose, whereby it is done for God. For If you travel without…

— Marcus Eremita

To have a faith, therefore, or a trust in anything, where God hath not promised, is plain idolatry, and a worshipping of…

— William Tyndale

Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane.…

— Clement of Alexandria

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

— Anonymous

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

— Richard John Neuhaus

The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise: the carrying…

— Alan Keyes

But I have contrived an explanation which has every advantage; is inviting to christians of every communion; gradually frees them from all…

— Adam Weishaupt

Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that…

— Sigmund Freud

Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.

— Youssef Ziedan