Quotes of: Religious-people Keyword

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

Richard Rohr

At the political level, most Jews and most Catholics have accepted the liberal idea of religious freedom.

David Novak

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

Gregory Bateson

I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.

Chris Hughes

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

Christopher Hitchens

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

Jose Serrano

I've been a little bit obsessed with religion, without being a religious person, for about a decade.

Tom Perrotta

My religious beliefs also defied convention, leaning towards agnosticism and pandeism.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

dismissed in his address religion as a 'myth'...

Matter and Spirit in the Universe: Scientific and Religious Preludes to Modern Cosmology

We have managed to transfer religious belief into gullibility for whatever can masquerade as science.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.

Maurice Sendak

While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

Joseph Barbera

If the president of the United States says that attacks on civilians, starvation, and denial of religious freedom in Sudan are important international issues, they become so.

Elliott Abrams

My dad was a militant atheist, or is a militant atheist. My mum was sort of bought up in a religious family because she was a Protestant from Ireland but wasn't especially religious.

Tony Blair

I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.

Win Butler

The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

Jon Meacham

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

E. O. Wilson

A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

Frances Wright

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

John Aubrey

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

Charles de Secondat