American Quote by Rick Perlstein

I think that Mary Baker Eddy was a fascinating character in American religious history.

— Caroline Fraser

“The evangelical church in America has, to a large extent, been co-opted by an American, religious version of the kingdom of the world. We…

— Gregory A. Boyd

I hope for an America where no president, no public official, no individual will ever be deemed a greater or lesser American because of…

— Edward Kennedy

“The great compromise between the American religious impulse and the American Enlightenment in the 1700s permitted any and every conceivable sect to bud and…

— Kurt Andersen

“My reading of American religious history is that religion always functions best from the margins of society and not in the councils of power.…

— Randall Balmer

“Deists of Jefferson’s generation fought tax support for religious institutions at a time when the only influential American religious sects were Protestant. Their nineteenth-century…

— Susan Jacoby

Religion that is imposed upon its recipients turns out to engender either indifference or resentment. Most American religious leaders have recognized that persuasion is…

— William F. Schulz

My national identity is first American. My religious identity is first Muslim.

— Dalia Mogahed

It is easy to forget, since the Catholic Church is now the only large American religious denomination whose ecclesiastical hierarchy continues to oppose birth…

— Susan Jacoby

I didn't have any qualms. I'm used to taking my clothes off in front of strangers. I've done it since I was 14 -…

— Alex Kingston

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

— Phyllis McGinley

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to…

— Andre Malraux