People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
In commendably seeking to protect freedom of speech, we must not lower our defences against the evil of racial and religious intolerance.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.
Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
You cannot take one set of issues from one country and apply it to another. They are all different, in terms of history, and the religious compositions of the populations involved.
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.
To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.
Oddly enough, George Pal always began and ended something with The Bible. All his pictures had a religious undertone. God was always there, protecting us.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
