Quotes About Religious

And what, we may ask, are these devout and well-behaved Peyotists experiencing? Not the mild sense of virtue which sustains the average Sunday churchgoer through ninety minutes of boredom.

One of the most despicable religious fallacies is that suffering is ennobling, that it is a step on the path to some kind of enlightenment or salvation.

The terrorist organizations were an enemy with philosophies of political and religious fanaticism leaving no room for compromise or peace. As far as Elizabeth was concerned, the world would be a better place if they were all destroyed. If

On the one hand, disestablishment led to an exponential increase in religious institutions, none of which was able to claim a legally sanctioned cultural authority. On the other hand, it deregulated the religious marketplace, enabling new ministry groups to flourish like never before.

It didn't seem to matter that Reagan made his heartfelt endorsements of traditional family values despite being divorced and so alienated from his own children that one of them would write a book about what a rotten father he had been; by the same token, the president's failure to have made regular or even occasional visits to church hardly dimmed his appeal for the resurgent religious right

Because it lacks the rigors of critical thought, it naïvely embraces big technology; because it celebrates numbers it naïvely courts power; because it rejects nuance and knows next to nothing of the dialectical and dialogical character of truth, it naïvely courts the tyranny of religious ideology and cant.

There can he greater, more authentic piety in a man's curses than in the sanctimonious prayers of the religious. As

actually exist like a racial or religious community. It is a form of absurdity. For even on its own terms this composition is wildly unsustainable and contradictory. Gay men and gay women have almost nothing in common. It may be too pedestrian to even mention, but gay men and lesbians do not always form the warmest of relationships.

We need to make sure we are doing what Jesus said and not what we thought Jesus must have said. The textbook case against Christian activism can be made in one word—Prohibition—the word that would have made the Lord Jesus at Cana into a moonshiner felon. We did a great job there of setting aside the Word of God for the sake of our tradition

Those who minister under the New Covenant are to receive their living in the same way as the Levites did in the Old. What was that "way"? It was the tithe.

Secularism refers to the idea, popular for the last few centuries, that it is in fact possible for nations to be religiously neutral.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

Lutheranism restricted itself to an exclusively ecclesiastical and theological character, while Calvinism put its impress in and outside the church upon every aspect of human life.

I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II

English migrants often came as families and they sometimes came as whole towns, hoping to found a Christian commonwealth, a religious community bound to the common wealth of all, public good over private gain. "The care of the public must oversway all private respects," Winthrop said. "For it is a true rule that particular estates cannot subsist in the ruin of the public." They expected the world to be watching. "The eyes of all people are upon us

FEW PEOPLE in American history have been as consistently disliked as the Puritans.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.

The Christian church has preached a powerless gospel that has led countless people into a religious maze that goes nowhere. They have handcuffed the masses to a false God. The Bible has been misinterpreted and misused by religious leaders who claim to have spiritual authority, giving this bankrupt system a false air of legitimacy and credibility. I'm not pointing the finger; I was one of them. I was sincere, but I was sincerely wrong.

The media seems to think only abortion and gay marriage are religious issues. Poverty is a moral issue, it's a faith issue, it's a religious issue.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don't think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy here and religious freedom is one of the most important things we as Americans cherish.

In 1299 Kiev lost its religious status too, when the Metropolitan, Rus's senior churchman, transferred his see to Vladimir, and thence, a few decades later, to Moscow.

unlike in the United States, there can be no place in Russia for a free market in religious life.