Quotes About Religion

I went to Catholic school and experienced racism firsthand from nuns and priests.

If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?

While the primary focus continues to be on religious minorities - the Christian religious minorities and the Jewish community - ISIS will also go after people who interpret and believe the Muslim faith differently than they do.

Religion is extremely important in this democracy - so important that it occupies a prime position in the Bill of Rights.

It is the strength of our culture that we can have Sonia Gandhi, who is Catholic, a Sikh prime minister, and a Muslim president.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

It is no accident that faith in Jesus Christ - not only believing in Him but believing Him - is the first principle of the gospel.

In our Constitution, our bedrock principle, you know - indeed, what the nation was founded on - is an idea of freedom of religion: that we don't single out people because of their religion.

I as a Muslim want you, as a Christian, to really be a perfect Christian. I want my Jewish friends to be perfect Jews, to live according to the highest principles of what it means to be a Jew, to be a Christian, to be a Muslim.

We should not fear what our country was built on: a set of Judeo-Christian principles.

I admire the Islam. There's a lot of good principles in it.

I'm pretty well grounded in Christian principles.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.

I went to Catholic school for the cheapest private education.

I grew up in the Episcopal Church, went to private school in that church, went to chapel every day.

I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

I was an atheist most of my life, and now I am a God-fearing Catholic because of the miracle of life. And I'm pro-life.

I have a big problem with Islam.

I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A lot of people assume that if you write about early Christianity, you must be some kind of Sunday-school teacher.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is Eurabia, a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'