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Religious Quotes by George Washington
- We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions...
- Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb and purge my…
- I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions,…
- We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition,…
- While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone…
- The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their…
- Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
- Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. I had hoped that liberal and…
- Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?
- The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now…
- Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations,…
- If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger…
- Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
- Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
- ..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.
- I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious…
- The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of…
- Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality…
- We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy.…
- I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and…
- Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most…
- While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support.
- Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle
More Religious Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila