Religious Quotes · Page 56

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

— Stephen Charnock

I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.

— Dar Williams

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

— Jermain Defoe

God may allow us at times to hit rock bottom, to show us He's the rock-at the bottom.

— Kirk Franklin

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

— Johnny Cash

Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by…

— Christopher Hitchens

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

— William Bennett

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

— Teresa of Avila

“Races, socioeconomic groups, and regions differ in their religious service attendance much more than they did a few decades ago. The religious…

— Jean M. Twenge

The issue of providing women all forms of preventative health care has been and remains very important. The, the importance of protecting…

— Jacob Lew

In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of…

— Keith O'Brien

There is one group of people - social conservatives, religious conservatives - who honestly feel that women's place is in the home…

— Stephanie Coontz

The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which finally passed in the Senate late last year, is a throwback to the 1990s, when ENDA…

— Michelangelo Signorile

When immigrants come, the freedom to practice their faith is a guarantee. They may have trouble with their neighbors, but freedom of…

— Diana L. Eck

A part of us resists all of this and wants to make it sound as if it's much too religious, an arbitrary…

— Frederick Lenz

“You know, I come out of the church. I not only grew up in the church but graduated from seminary, and I…

— Chris Hedges

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

What chiefly concerns and alarms many of us are the problems arising from religious fanaticism. As long as large numbers of militant…

— Anthony Storr

Many people question their religious identity today, not necessarily by thinking of converting to Judaism or to Islam: it's just that technologies…

— Paul Virilio

What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or…

— John Bartholomew Gough

Few things are more important at this time in history than for religious people to listen to the New Atheists as if…

— Michael Dowd

I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran…

— Barack Obama

The need for civility in society has never been more important. The foundation of kindness and civility begins in our homes. It…

— Quentin L. Cook

The First Amendment of the US Constitution ... is an eloquent repudiation of the First Commandment's prohibition of religious freedom. It is…

— Frank Zindler

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

— Owen Feltham

Religious traditions are in a constant state of development and renewed self-understanding.

— David Novak

I don't need everyone to hear me say I'm a Christian but I need everyone to see Christ in me.

— Nishan Panwar

“Religious fanaticism is simply good politics in the middle-eastern countries.”

— James Aldridge

I think people who are religious are more likely to want one around, but it's a very secular position.

— John Green

I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a lot by Buddhism and Hinduism.

— Rodrigo Santoro

“With my meagre knowledge of my own religion i do not want to belong to any religious body”

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Richard John Neuhaus

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

— William Shakespeare

God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.

— Thomas Watson

“Sheer human decency and civility are two of the most important contributions to our community life that women of courage can make.”

— Chieko N. Okazaki

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

— Silouan the Athonite

God gives us always strength enough, and sense enough, for everything He wants us to do.

— John Ruskin

The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism.

— Dennis Prager

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

— Mark Twain

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

— Ludwig Feuerbach