Religious Quotes · Page 113

“Too much church and too less Jesus is dangerous, it can transform you into a religious person.”

— Alin Sav

He made me by clay but the clay left soft and mild,and that is why I am so sensitive.

— Zarnab

“A man's religious choice didn't matter in the least if it was his path to decency and remembering his fellow man.”

— Heather Graham

The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions.

— Thomas Jefferson

The thing the Buddhists and the Sufis have in common is a belief that religious certainties are destructive.

— Luke Rhinehart

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

— Renee O'Connor

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

— Robert Kennedy

If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite…

— Christopher Hitchens

Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful,…

— Silouan the Athonite

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately…

— Frederick Buechner

If I get too political or if I say things... the whole religious thing, which if you know my background, kind of…

— Frank Mir

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of…

— Patrick Henry

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish…

— Guenter Lewy

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our…

— Peggy Noonan

That new technologies and techniques would be forthcoming was a fundamental article of Christian faith. Hence, no bishops or theologians denounced clocks…

— Rodney Stark

We shouldn't pray for a lighter load to carry but a stronger back to endure! Then the world will see that God…

— Brother Yun

There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a…

— Richard Dawkins

Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for…

— Mark Twain

This you may say of man - when theories change and crash, when schools, philosophies, when narrow dark alleys of thought, national,…

— John Steinbeck

I suspect the popularity of young adults and dystopian novels has something to do with a desire for allegory and old-fashioned morality…

— Allegra Goodman

The fundamental religious objection to the theory of evolution is not scientific but moral. [Fundamentalists believe that] evolutionary theory must be opposed…

— Elizabeth S. Anderson

Duality is the real root of our suffering and of all our conflicts. All our concepts and beliefs, no matter how profound…

— Namkhai Norbu

Religion should be subject to commonsense appraisal and rational review, as openly discussible as, say, politics, art and the weather. The First…

— Jeffrey Tayler

At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change…

— Abraham Lincoln

As our culture has become increasingly hostile to Christianity, it has become correspondingly open to wickedness.

— Rick Scarborough

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

— Andy Stanley

The United States is off the international spectrum in religious extremism.

— Noam Chomsky

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

— Martin Luther

He'd been drinking in a bar downtown, when he thought he heard a choir of angels singing in the Tiki Lounge. And…

— Elton John

God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

— Louise Bourgeois

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

— Mahatma Gandhi

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

— Alan Moore

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

— Pope Francis

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

— Mona Eltahawy

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

— Benazir Bhutto

I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

— John Vianney

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and…

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

— James Hervey