Famous Quotes
- The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Religion
- The dissolution of the nation destroys the national religion, and dethrones the national deity.
- William Robertson Smith on Religion
- The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
- Lewis Mumford on Religion
- The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
- Randall Terry on Religion
- The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
- John Cornyn on Religion
- The engine of ancient society was religion but the engine of contemporary society, as I see it, is advertising.
- Kit Williams on Religion
- The equation of religion with belief is rather recent.
- Arnold J. Toynbee on Religion
- The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
- Condoleezza Rice on Religion
- The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Religion
- The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion.
- Harvey Milk on Religion
- The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
- The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.
- William Ames on Religion
- The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.
- Arlen Specter on Religion
- The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that.
- Tom T. Hall on Religion
- The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
- The first time I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
- Fred Allen on Religion
- The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
- Billy Graham on Religion
- The fundamentalists are increasing. People, afraid to oppose those fundamentalists, shut their mouths. It is really very difficult to make people move against a sensitive issue like religion, which is the source of fundamentalism.
- Taslima Nasrin on Religion
- The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake on Religion
- The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
- Desmond Tutu on Religion
- The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
- Orson Pratt on Religion
- The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.
- John Paul Stevens on Religion
- The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.
- The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
- John Ruskin on Religion
- The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
- Arthur C. Clarke on Religion
- The habit of religion is oppressive, an easy way out of thought.
- Peter Ustinov on Religion
- The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
- Ben Kingsley on Religion
- The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.
- David Bowie on Religion
- The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
- Jerry Falwell on Religion
- The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
- Howard Cosell on Religion
- The increase of territory and power of empires by force of arms has been the policy of all great powers, and it has always been possible to get the approval of their state religion.
- John Boyd Orr on Religion
- The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
- John Updike on Religion
- The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.
- Cliff Stearns on Religion
- The Islam of the 18th, 19th and first half of the 20th century was a poor thing. Nobody bothered about it. Islam was that funny sort of pure system of beliefs that depressed people in the Middle East held as their religion.
- John Keegan on Religion
- The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
- John Burroughs on Religion
- The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.
- Cat Stevens on Religion
- The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ.
- Randall Terry on Religion
- The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.
- Dennis Prager on Religion
- The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another.
- David O. Selznick on Religion
- The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.
- Arthur Wellesley on Religion
- The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
- Thomas Hardy on Religion
- The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex.
- Hugh Hefner on Religion
- The major obstacle to a religious renewal is the intellectual classes, who are highly influential and tend to view religion as primitive superstition. They believe that science has left atheism as the only respectable intellectual stance.
- Robert Bork on Religion
- The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
- Herman Hesse on Religion
- The memory of my own suffering has prevented me from ever shadowing one young soul with the superstition of the Christian religion.
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton on Religion
- The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
- Aldous Huxley on Religion
- The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside yourself. How you look to help other people, and how you get out of this 'I, me, mine' type of thing.
- Abel Ferrara on Religion
- The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
- The Muslims have, as everyone else says, the right to practice their religion and they have the right to construct a mosque at ground zero if they wish. What I am saying, though, is that they should listen to public opinion, they should listen to the deep wounds and anguish that this is causing to so many good people.
- Peter King on Religion
- The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.
- Dave Barry on Religion
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