I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to spread to the community.
Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.
I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.
I mean, I talk about being Jewish a lot. It's funny because I do think of myself as Jewish ethnically, but I'm not religious at all. I have no religion.
God is the biggest storyteller, and when we create stories, we connect with him and with each other across cultural, religious and gender boundaries.
I definitely believe in a God and in a higher power, and I definitely take from many different religious cultures. I go to church.
My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.
I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.
Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversion to religious exercises.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
I was brought up as Christian, and while my ideas have changed, I have always felt myself religiously oriented.
The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.
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.
Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.
Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.
We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.
I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.
The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
In most cases, my visits to the West are for promotion of human values and religious harmony.
I was raised into the Romanian Orthodox culture by my parents, and most notably my mother, who is a profoundly religious and spiritual woman.
Religion was created for the goodness of the humanity, but religious dogma converts a good person to an evil person.
