Religious Quotes · Page 310

You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories…

— Dan Brown

But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual,…

— Abraham Lincoln

The US is also unusual in the enormous scale of religious fundamentalism. The impact on understanding of the world is extraordinary. In…

— Noam Chomsky

In the absence of organized religion, the only vehicle for redemption is art - not just the fragmentary arts of painting or…

— Roger Scruton

The truth is that male religious leaders have had - and still have - an option to interpret holy teachings either to…

— Jimmy Carter

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

— Pete Postlethwaite

Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still…

— Leo Tolstoy

Too many religious organizations are in the business of enforcing beliefs.

— Charley Pride

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for…

— Karen Armstrong

I've known a lot of very religious people. My mother is very religious, but she was also very - is very private…

— Michael Shannon

The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.

— Ikkyu

The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well…

— James Madison

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

— Martin Luther

I find myself seeking out the commonalities of our different religious experiences with hopes of encouraging, through my writings, the most hopeful,…

— Richard Paul Evans

But of all Nonsense, Religious Nonsense is the most nonsensical; so enough, & more than enough of it - Only, by the…

— Robert Burns

Religious power, which, as I have already said, frequently identifies itself with political power, has always been a protagonist of this bitter…

— Salvatore Quasimodo

The saddest part of the human race is we're obsessed with this idea of 'us and them,' which is really a no-win…

— Dave Matthews

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

— Camille Paglia

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

— Max Lucado

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success."

— Neale Donald Walsch

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

— Thomas Jefferson

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way…

— Richard Dawkins

Motherhood is the second oldest profession in the world. It never questions age, height, religious preference, health, political affiliation, citizenship, morality, ethnic…

— Erma Bombeck

[The Drafters of the Constitution] were intent on avoiding more than 100 years of religious intolerance and persecution in American colonial history…

— John M Swomley