Quotes of: Religious-people Keyword

I knew there would be some controversy over the 'Potter' series between religious people and secular-minded people - that was inevitable - what astonished me and continues to astonish me is the intense controversy that erupted very early on among Chr...

Michael O'Brien

Genghis Khan decreed religious tolerance for all of his conquered peoples. So I think he definitely would approve of our constitutional protections of freedom of religion. I think he would also approve of the way the U.S. has been able to attract tal...

Amy Chua

I do think that religion has turned a lot of people off. Part of it is because it was all about the rules and was political. I think now people have a hunger for God, they want to have a relationship, but they don't want to be called religious. I'm n...

Joel Osteen

The brain is a stubborn organ. Once its primary set of beliefs has been established, the brain finds it difficult to integrate opposing ideas and beliefs. This has profound consequences for individuals and society and helps to explain why some people...

Andrew B. Newberg

All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.

Salman Rushdie

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Nobody's Fool

The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life

LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS

Grace is the seed of glory, the dawning of glory in the heart, and therefore grace is the earnest of the future inheritance.

The Religious Affections

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

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

I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the experience of being Muslim in America is as valid and as important a perspective on the religious experience of America as evangelical Ch...

Ayad Akhtar

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

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