Quotes About Religion

No Christian can be a pessimist, for Christianity is a system of radical optimism.

Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.

While there are many moderate Muslims, Islam's political ideology is radical and has global ambitions.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

There is a group of individuals who are radical jihadists. We need to call them by name. They believe it is OK to kill people in the name of their religion. It is not all of Islam. It is not all Muslims. But there is a subgroup who believe it is OK. In fact, it is their plan and design to kill people.

I tend not to believe radical Muslim movements.

The struggle against radical Islam should be a joint struggle, and everyone should say, 'There - we are sacrificing something.'

Radical Islam has been the foe of Christendom for centuries.

Radical Islam, it has grown into a global jihad.

There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive.

The Bible is a radically pro-slavery document. Slave owners waved Bibles over their heads in the Civil War and justified it.

Most Muslims do not 'choose' Islam in the way that they choose to become doctors or lawyers, nor even in the way that they choose to become fans of Coldplay or Radiohead. Most Muslims, like people of any faith, are born into their religion.

I see religion as a storehouse of lots of really good ideas that a secular world should look at, raid, and learn from.

I try to base my life on the principles of Christ. I try to raise my family on the principles of Christ. I don't know if that makes me religious.

I'm a Christian. I go to church when I can. I was raised Baptist. I went to a Lutheran school. I'm a nondenominational practicing Christian. I have a lot of faith.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

I was raised Catholic, and I have an aversion to anyone who takes religion to the extreme.

I was raised Church of England but I love the Buddhist philosophy, it's very powerful, non-violent.

I was born and raised a Christian, and I still adhere to those principles.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Hey, I was raised in the church.

I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.

I was raised as a Muslim.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.