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Religious Quotes by James Madison
- We have staked the whole future of our new nation, not upon the power of government; far from it. We have staked the future of…
- Religion [is] the basis and foundation of Government
- Cursed be all that learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.
- Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous…
- The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man…
- The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as…
- That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such…
- It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him.…
- The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the…
- Conscience is the most sacred of all property.
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
- We are teaching the world the great truth that Governments do better without Kings & Nobles than with them. The merit will be doubled by…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
- [N]o religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.
- No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,…
- In the latter sense, a man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. He has a property of peculiar value…
- Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sectEqual…
- In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms [of government], for…
- As compacts, charters of government are superior in obligation to all others, because they give effect to all others. As truths, none can be more…
- I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.
- Freedom arises from a multiplicity of sects, which pervades America, and is the best and only security for religious liberty in America.
- Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
- Is the appointment of Chaplains to the two Houses of Congress consistent with the Constitution, and with the pure principle of religious freedom? In strictness…
- In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in…
- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
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- 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