Quotes of: Religious-life Keyword

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).

Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor

Debating religious beliefs are a red line, a deep red line.

Pope Shenouda III

If we subject religious claims to a lesser degree of scrutiny, we should not be surprised if religious people subject us to a greater degree of servitude.

Stifyn Emrys

I think that if you were to probe a lot of people's religious opinions, they would not be as religious as the numbers would suggest.

Steven Pinker

I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'

Salman Rushdie

I am a religious man! The only thing is, that in my religion, I am the God!

Tunk

Basically there can be no categories such as 'religious' art and 'secular' art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore 'religious.

Madeleine L'Engle

If I were a religious person, I would have been very freaking one; mixture of logic and lie.

M.F. Moonzajer

Religious freedom, often referred to as the first freedom, is of central import to the American experiment. As such it should feature prominently in U.S. foreign policy.

Frank Wolf

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

Robert Kennedy

What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.

Richard Mentor Johnson

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

Sam Harris

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

Cesar Nascimento

The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

Ira Glasser

A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Habeeb Akande

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

Jennifer Gilmore

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

David Herbert Donald

I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

Ashton Kutcher

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

William James

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

William Butler Yeats