Religious Quotes - page 2

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. (Sandra Day O'Connor)
I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone. View quote
Charles Darwin
History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes Letter to von Humboldt, 1813. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It becomes us, in humility, to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored. View quote
James K. Polk
We're all talking about the same thing, whether it's religious people or New Age spiritual people or Buddhists or scientists. We're all talking about having a sense of awe and wonder at something grander than ourselves. View quote
Michael Shermer
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. View quote
Thomas Paine
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. View quote
William O. Douglas
We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being. View quote
William O. Douglas
Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood. View quote
Wallace Stevens
Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. (H. P. Lovecraft)
I'm not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws. View quote
Stephen Hawking
One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment. View quote
Steven Weinberg
We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country. View quote
Margaret Mead
Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious. View quote
Samuel Johnson
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears. View quote
Emil Cioran
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction. View quote
Joseph Addison
Anything that can hurt the convictions of another, particularly religious convictions, must be avoided. Freedom of expression must be exercised in a spirit of responsibility. I condemn all manifest provocation that might dangerously fan passions. View quote
Jacques Chirac
Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty. View quote
Samuel Adams
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. (John Wesley)
Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people. View quote
Michael Palin
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality. View quote
Karen Armstrong
The truth is that Masonry is undoubtedly a religious institution, its religion being of that universal kind in which all men agree. View quote
Albert Mackey
Most religious stories and mythologies have some sort of similar root, some sort of global archetypes. View quote
Maynard James Keenan