Religious Quotes

Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

Martin Luthe

Religion is far too important a thing for atheists to leave to the religious.

Tor N? rretranders, M? rk Verden (English title not known)

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Without cultural sanction, most or all our religious beliefs and rituals would fall into the domain of mental disturbance.

John Schumake

In all religiousness there lurks the suspicion that we invented the story that God Loves us.

Sebastian Moore

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

I hope that no American... will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Liberty is the possibility of doubting, the possibility of making a mistake, the possibility of searching and experimenting, the possibility of saying No to any authority - - Literary, artistic, philosophic, religious, social and even political.

Ignazio Silone, The God That Failed (1950)

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

Leonard Hodgson

The religious community is essential, for alone our vision is too narrow to see all that must be seen. Together, our vision widens and strength is renewed.

Mark Morrison - Reed

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Saki

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri - Fr? d? ric Amiel

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Quincy Adams

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

Samuel Adams

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land.

President Ronald Reagan, to the National Association of Evangelicals, Columbus, Ohio

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

I think on - Stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

William Orville Douglas

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

John Adams

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer, New York Times Magazine, Mar. 12, 1978

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Ingmar Bergman

Religiously strict people, who judge themselves without mercy, are also those who have most often spoken ill of mankind in general.

Frederick Nietzsche

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

To attempt to be religious without practicing a specific religion is as possible as attempting to speak without a specific language.

George Santayana

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

The truly religious man does not embrace a religion and he who embraces one has no religion.

Kahlil Gibran

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudne

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffe

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Jessamyn West

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Johannes Tillich

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

Life becomes religious whenever we make it so when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is felt, when some larger outlook is gained, when some nobler purpose is formed, when some task is well done.

Sophia Blanche Lyon Fahs

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854