I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.
Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.
At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.
Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.
Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.
I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.
My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.
The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.
People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.
Intelligent design is a modest position theologically and philosophically. It attributes the complexity and diversity of life to intelligence, but does not identify that intelligence with the God of any religious faith or philosophical system.
Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.
Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life f...
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men make a football team. The first requisite is life, always.
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
I live in a post-Christian world in Oxford; it is quite rare to meet somebody who is religious in academic life now, and there is absolutely no tendency for rioting and mayhem, and it is extremely civilised.
It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.
A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.
