Religious belief Quotes · Page 3

If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

— Marian Seldes

I think that our experiences are quite often colored by our cultural and religious beliefs.

— Rosemary Ellen Guiley

Religious beliefs are sacred to people, and at all times should be respected and honoured.

— Isaac Hayes

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

— Katharine Hepburn

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

— Pope Francis

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

— Mark Twain

People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.

— Karen Maitland

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

— Salman Rushdie

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the…

— Ron Paul

I would like to see the lack of demonization for those of us who stand on sincerely held religious beliefs. It's overdue.…

— Michele Bachmann

Air Force officials appear to be more concerned with appeasing the powerful Religious Right lobbyists who have argued against any guidelines that…

— Barry W. Lynn

There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry toward…

— Isaac Hayes

I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see…

— Madonna Ciccone

Thus inwardly armed with confidence in God and the unshakable stupidity of the voting citizenry, the politicians can begin the fight for…

— Adolf Hitler

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which…

— John Gresham Machen

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death.…

— Stonewall Jackson

I support the rights of all people to practice their religious beliefs privately, but I oppose the idea of respecting religions. In…

— Taslima Nasrin

I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should…

— Martin Rees

Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen. She repeated…

— Ian Mcewan

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief…

— Mario Cuomo

Even though their arguments did not invoke religion, I think we all know what's behind these arguments. They're trying to protect religious…

— Steven Weinberg

As Eastern thought has begun to interest a significant number of people, and meditation is no longer viewed with ridicule or suspicion,…

— Fritjof Capra

The NYPD never really had anything to do with it. This is stuff I did on my own time. It just so…

— Ralph Sarchie

In fact, "atheism" is a term that should not even exist. No one ever needs to identify himself as a "non-astrologer" or…

— Sam Harris

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is…

— Anonymous

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Religious beliefs...should never be an excuse to treat people badly.

— Zach Wahls

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

— Sigmund Freud

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook

“Christianity is a knowledge and not a faith based religious belief system. One must have a peg on which to hang ones…

— R. Alan Woods

Masonry is not a religion. He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

— Albert Pike

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

— Martin Amis

Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.

— Mitch Horowitz

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

— Jim Shaw

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

— James Madison

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

— Javed Akhtar

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

— Adolf Hitler

The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.

— George Coyne

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

— Hugo Black

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos