Religious People Quotes

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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse… — Karen Armstrong
Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,… — Karen Armstrong
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes. — Dave Barry
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. — John Adams
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?' — Tony Campolo
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand… — Rebecca Goldstein
The new spirituality will also base itself on a third very large spiritual understanding, which is that life is eternal. Most religious people claim to… — Neale Donald Walsch
For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find anything like the… — Rajneesh
Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them. — Benjamin Franklin
Let me say that I don't see any conflict between science and religion. I go to church as many other scientists do. I share with… — Martin Rees
The rabbis, the Jewish religious people, the priests of the temple of Jerusalem, they were learned fools. They could not tolerate Jesus. The learned fools… — Rajneesh
Imitation is very easy, and the whole culture and society depends on imitation. Everybody is telling you how to behave, and whatsoever they are teaching… — Rajneesh
It [an ethical problem with in vitro fertilization] depends on whether you're talking ethics from the standpoint of some religious denomination or from just truly… — Unknown Author
Unlike religious people, I look at all religions equally. — Ricky Gervais
It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell. — John R. Rice
[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes… — Vincent Bugliosi
To be prophets, in particular, by demonstrating how Jesus lived on this earth, and to proclaim how the kingdom of God will be in its… — Pope Francis
No science is ever frightening to Christians. Religious people don't need the science to come out any particular way on IQ or AIDS or sex… — Ann Coulter
Though the academic authorities are actually proud of conducting everything by means of Examinations, they seldom indulge in what religious people used to descibe as… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having… — Michael Shermer

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