Quotes About Religion

To be religious even in a personal way, you have to wake up and find your own portals to wonder and transcendence.

Your challenge, then, is to create a religion of your own by being secular in a religious way, or religious in a secular way. You can learn how to see the secular from a religious angle, and vice versa.

The one ingredient missing in much of modern spirituality is intelligence. Yet, when you examine the religious traditions of the world you find study, study, and more study.

The formal religions are often overdone, with useless formalities, immature psychological notions, and pompous authorities.

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church . All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

The row ostensibly has to do with tables versus CSS, a controversial issue of the time, which has always, given its level of passion, struck Maxine as somehow religious. She imagines it will be difficult, no matter which side prevails, to appreciate, ten years from now, the all-consuming nature of the dispute.

Listen my darling, here's the situation – Wait … Un gazz , I'm talkin to a robot here, right? Again. So! uh-huh! how you're doing? how long you been a robot … You wouldn't be Jewish, by any chance? Yeah, like when you were thirteen, did your parents give you a bot mitzvah?

Remember that Puritans were utterly devoted, like literary critics, to the Word.

For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross.

Doubt is the essence of Christ.

we no longer remember a time when neither party had a monopoly on God.

Christian nationalism looks backward on a fictionalized history of America's allegedly Christian founding. It looks forward to a future in which its versions of the Christian religion and its adherents, along with their political allies, enjoy positions of exceptional privilege and power in government and in law.

The roots of the present crisis in the American political party system lie at the juncture of money and religion

This is why the Treaty of Tripoli of 1798, endorsed by John Adams and other members of America's founding generation, declared explicitly (and uncontroversially) that "the government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion.

Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions," said President Ulysses S. Grant in 1875. "Keep the church and state forever separate.

We don't notice when it shows up across the street or quietly takes up residence in our classrooms. And we just don't take its proponents at their word. Jerry Falwell, D. James Kennedy, Pat Robertson, James Dobson, and any number of other leaders of the Christian Right have told us that they abhor our public schools, and that they pray for the day when such schools cease to exist.

Other observers may reasonably use terms like "theocracy," "dominionism," "fundamentalism," or "Christian right." I use those terms where appropriate, but often prefer "Christian nationalism" in referring to the whole, because it both reflects the political character of the movement and because it makes clear its parallels between the American version and comparable political movements around the world and throughout history.

Their father told the kids that there is no hell! And my daughter says she wants to move away from our 'fundamentalism.' So I guess it's up to me." Her voice is almost ragged with exasperation.

The religious right is quick to extol the principle of free speech when it comes to, say, public school officials preaching to children in their care or shouting at women through bullhorns outside of reproductive health clinics. And yet they are eager to regulate and restrict the speech of medical professionals delivering reproductive health services.

California may look to the world like a blue state. But one in five adults are evangelical Christian, and the state has more megachurches than any other.

It is not surprising that industry leaders may look to a certain kind of religion for answers—not in the sense of praying for rain (although speaker Sonny Perdue, the secretary of agriculture, has done that, too) but in the sense of working with religious nationalists to elevate the policies and politicians that work to their benefit.