Quotes of: Religious-faith Keyword

Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

Michele Bachmann

At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.

Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right

I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious.

Bjorn Ulvaeus

The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religiou...

The God Delusion

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith after Freud

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Mahatma Gandhi

It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects.

Orson Pratt

Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him one ace further than they have a sight of His fulness and faithfulness in exercise.

The Religious Affections

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

Abraham Cahan

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.

Mike Quigley

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or t...

Desmond Tutu

The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing ...

Jim Al-Khalili

It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of o...

Sam Harris

Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is faith that keeps the whole terrible edifice of religious certainty still looming dangerously over our world.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Since belief is measured by action, he who forbids us to believe religion to be true, necessarily also forbids us to act as we should if we did believe it to be true. The whole defence of religious faith hinges upon action. If the action required or ...

The Will to Believe, Human Immortality, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

Mohammed Morsi

In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.

Killosophy

Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance.

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed in the past but still insisting that this time it will be different.

Jonathan Sacks

It's important to ask candidates about their beliefs, in part because politicians frequently exploit religious faith - often with the idea that voters will be more likely to unthinkingly accept certain political positions so long as they arise from r...

Gary Bauer

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

Jim Wallis