Quotes About Religion

I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

When we speak of faith - the faith that can move mountains - we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.

Certainly, I find that 'Mere Christianity' speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.

Growing up, I always saw the hypocrisy of the Catholic church. The history speaks for itself, and I grew incredibly frustrated and angry. I essentially just put that into my words.

If you believe that there is a God, then you know that God doesn't show his face. He speaks to you, you feel him, but you've never seen him.

The Taj, the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, Cracao Basilica and Polish church are some monuments that hold a special place in my memory.

I am fundamentally an anthropologist and a rationalist. What I say is that human societies are very different from what specialists call 'animal society' because the former have religion.

I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one.

Obviously, a big part of the American Revolution was there would be no Church of England the way there was in England. There was a specific attempt not to have an established church.

To speak specifically of our problem with the Muslim world, we are meandering into a genuine clash of civilizations, and we're deluding ourselves with euphemisms. We're talking about Islam being a religion of peace that's been hijacked by extremists. If ever there were a religion that's not a religion of peace, it is Islam.

There's a kind of optimism specifically within Christianity about the world - about whose side God is on. Well, I didn't have any of that in my background. I had physicality and chaos.

Our equality bill is specifically designed to protect religion and belief on exactly the same terms as race or gender or sexuality.

I think people wanted to see some specificity in faith on TV.

There are nutters across every political and religious spectrum; it goes without saying.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The speculative object and the practical object of philosophy as Naturalism, science and pleasure, coincide on this point: it is always a matter of denouncing the illusion, the false infinite, the infinity of religion and all of the theologico-erotic-oneiric myths in which it is expressed.

We're losing our freedom of speech. We are losing freedom of religion. We are losing freedom of the press.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

In 1984, I gave a speech at Notre Dame titled 'Religious Belief and Public Morality.' I said that Catholic legislators will live by the laws of the church because we want to stay in the club.

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.