Quotes About Religion

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.