When I was taught truth, that's when I got my freedom.

Kirk Franklin

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Therese Of Lisieux

When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim.

Mark Twain

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

George Washington

Intellectually, religious emotions are not creative but conservative. They attach themselves readily to the current view of the world and consecrate it.

John Dewey

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s.

Steve Allen

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

Alfred North Whitehead

The three most important parts a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money and his religious beliefs.

Samuel Butler

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

Henri Frederic Amiel

I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious idea of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God.

Thomas A. Edison

The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.

John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion.… Our Constitution was made only for a moral and a religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

John Adams

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness ... the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

The Dalai Lama

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal

The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief.

Sigmund Freud

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

Eric Hoffer

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

Rita Rudner

Howard Dean's statement makes it clear that he wants to muzzle America's churches and religious groups from professing what they believe on important issues facing our society.

Joseph Cella

Many of the deepest and most engaging questions that we grapple with about the nature of the universe have their origins in our purely religious quest for meaning.

John D. Barrow

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Alan Watts

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

Sandra Day O'conner

It gives the impression people must follow these opinions, which means clerical rule. The Shi'ite religious authority is interfering in political affairs.

Saleh Al mutlak

If anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiveness.

Cesare Cavalleri

There was no religious component to the violence. All the violence was influenced by small groups of boys who were not moved by the blasphemy issue.

Kamila Hyat

This was part of my minor, which is religious studies.

Steve Buoni

It [the Enlightenment] is clearly the foundation of the modern world. Almost everything we are arguing about at the moment - whether it's the religious hatred law and free speech, immigration, the movement of peoples, goods and services and what that does to national identity, or the proper limits of the state - go back to the positions first set out in the Enlightenment.

Andrew Marr

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

Dave Barry

I draw most of my religious beliefs from Star Wars.

Mike Dirnt

With all of these pop culture icons, it's a way for people to enter into a religious discussion in a non traditional or less threatening way.

David Dobson

Sometimes, ... I do think anti-Catholicism is one of the remaining legal prejudices in this country. People make comments they couldn't get away with with other religious groups.

John Vaughan

He shot into the air because he was a very religious man, and he knew if he took his own life he wouldn't go to heaven.

Sandra Angle

There are no studies that have generated any data on the outcome of the human consumption of peyote for religious purposes or for illegal purposes.

John Halpern

Testimony is an integral part of the Black religious tradition. It is the occasion where the believer stands before the community of faith in order to give account of the hope that is in him or her.

James Cone

Israel thought at that time a religious group wouldn't want to get engaged in military actions and terrorism.

Gabriel Sheffer

Work is a substitute "religious" experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

Looking at the black religious experience, globally Howard had the best experience over all, so I ended up going back.

Martina Martin

He was very active in a lot of education and religious and political activities all his life.

James Doyle

All Muslims were repulsed by the cartoons, even non-practicing ones whose Muslim identity is more cultural than religious. That doesn't mean there hasn't been manipulation.

Ahmed Rashid

The cult of the jellyfish is no less an imposition of a religious movementthan is the cult of the dinosaur. When designing a methodology it isundoubtedly far easier to construct a system that discourages individualdifferences, than it is to construct a system that that leverages andencourages them, but that does not mean that a methodology designed foran array of idealized.

Beau Sheil

If Gov. Ernie Fletcher does not veto the funding, we plan to pursue a legal option based on our constitution, which says no religious institution should receive state tax dollars.

Christina Gilgor

Dad was also a deeply, unabashedly religious man. But he never made the fatal mistake of so many politicians-wearing his faith on his sleeve to gain political advantage.

Ron Reagan

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

Dave Barry

We looked at all the possible places to donate to. We contacted soup kitchens and religious places which were close by. But a lot of places don't take clothes because they don't have the staff that can deal with them.

Alex Maghoub

After all, it [the Internet] was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

Denise Caruso

You have to educate religious bodies that social justice is faith in action.

Linda Hilton

Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal.

Lenore Hershey

The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go to the roots of the problem.

Alice Mccarthy

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

Norman O. Brown

You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know" it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths...

Robert M. Pirsig

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Henry Beston

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

Terry Hands

(Sibley) was a devout Baptist and believed in having a strong moral fiber. He believed that if you are in government, you ought to take some stands alongside your religious convictions.

Jack Baker

It's a political issue, not a religious issue.

Ayad Sammarai

That final image haunts me -- a physical struggle for the controls of a gasoline-fueled 21st-Century flying machine between a band of suicidal religious fanatics and a group of innocents drawn from amongst us all. It's really, in a way, the struggle for our world today.

Paul Greengrass

The astonishing thing is that people can become religious without being converted. That is, they join churches and start reading the Bible and doing religious things with no change in the foundation of their happiness: It is still themselves. They are the ground of their joy.

John Piper

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

Robert Stone

We acknowledge that only she can defend herself against allegations that she misrepresented the teachings of certain religious beliefs.

Saor Siagiaan

He had some options. Clearly this was a strong religious teacher.

Tony Somlai

The crux of this decision is that religious institutions are not above the law.

Irwin Zalkin

At this food bank, 75 percent of our participation and giving base are from various religious groups. People of faith have at their heart the caring for the hungry. I've gotten excited as it all seems to be making more sense to me. We can do this. We can end hunger in East Texas.

Robert Bush

I hope all of you will inherit and carry forward the fine traditions of China's religious circle in patriotism and religious piety and in upholding peace.

Jia Qinglin

I do a lot of inward thoughts and meditation, ... I listen to a lot of music. I'm not an extremely religious person. I am an extremely spiritual person. It's more of a feeling than something I can talk about.

Lalah Hathaway

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

Richard Chamberlain

This command does not condone the mistreatment of enemy combatants or the desecration of their religious and cultural beliefs.

Jason Kamiya

Dad was also a deeply unabashedly religious man.

Judy Woodruff

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

Alexander Cockburn

We have taken note that Joseph Zen was appointed as a cardinal by the Vatican. We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.

Liu Jianchao

We are concentrating on the religious elements, using religious terminology, in trying to appeal to the hearts of those who have been boycotting. We are trying to persuade all Islamists that having us in the Knesset is of greater value than a boycott.

Ibrahim Sarsur

This building is not just important to Catholics. It's a symbol of religious freedom for everyone.

Mark Potter

Mom has very strong religious beliefs, and that was not something she would entertain.

Brian Kirshon

The Illinois Conference of Churches regards the granting of an exemption to any government entity for expedient purposes of economic development to be a gross violation of the religious freedom secured by this nation's laws and constitution.

David Anderson

No religious law should have the force of secular law.

Judy Rebick

There is a new climate of religious intolerance in Britain. Whatever the government says, this new bill is pandering to that intolerance.

Nicholas Hytner

She was a very, very religious person. She played piano and organ at her church at one time.

Conrad Coleman

If you are ever going to really highlight a religious observance, you have to anticipate it.

Keith Wilson

(The Smiths) are religious about coming here each year. They live for it.

Mike Pierce

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God.

Karen Armstrong

There was no talk of anything like that (religious overtones) ? not even a veiled threat.

John Valentine

Secretary Albright's thoughts on the complexities of foreign policy in an age of religious extremism are required reading: bold, frank, clearly argued, and informed by experience.

Jonathan Burnham

So the question is, First, Whether the civil magistrate hath power to force men in things religious to do contrary to their conscience, and if they will not to punish them in their goods, liberties, or lives? this we hold in the negative.

Robert Barclay

The Republic of Macedonia is being built on democratic ideals and values, not on ethnic groups. Those ideals and values include economic opportunities, language and educational opportunities, religious rights, and political processes.

Boris Trajkovski

If the religious leaders decided to go all the way to a civil war they could, in no time. And if they really wanted to stop it, they could. The religious leaders are the ones who have the real power.

Hassan Bazzaz

That's a subject you always feel somewhat uncomfortable with, especially if you have your own religious base.

Ronald Rice

Areas of claimed autonomous exercise range from classic church property disputes to more recently developing questions over the extent to which various regulatory regimes, including labor law, civil rights law, and even malpractice, defamation, and contract law, should be permitted to intervene in the internal relations of religious institutions and communities.

Perry Dane

I know on money it says, 'In God we trust,' but I just don't think that things should be decided according to religious beliefs because there are so many different ones. We'll never all want the same thing, but some people are able to use that in order to gain favor.

Mary Baker

We are very disappointed with the decision. The state is arbitrarily deciding which ministries are religious and which are secular.

Dennis Poust

I looked at the religious gifts available to children. There wasn't much available. What do you give a kid - a rosary, a statue?

Teri O'toole

The best face of Jewish religious tradition and community involvement.

James Gibson

The question of how we should deal at the political and legal levels with attempts to circumvent the national consensus banning religious parties is on the table.

Gamal Mubarak

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

Ilka Chase

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life.... It's a religious thing.

Marty Robbins

We don't expect a religious government. They assured people they will not do that.

Ahmad Hussein

Intelligent design is simply the most recent version of creationism, which is admittedly a religious concept. There is no scientific basis to intelligent design.

Alan Leshner

My mother, religious-negro, proud of having waded through a storm, is, very obviously a sturdy bridge that I have crossed over on.

Toni Cade Bambara

It will foster religious intolerance and misunderstanding?.

Kelvin Thomson

We will reach out to political, community business and religious leaders around the state for their input.

Rick Segal

All manifestations of religious intolerance, incitement, harassment or violence.

The Assembly

I don't travel in circles where people say, 'I have faith, I believe this in my heart and nothing you can say or do can shake my faith.' That's just a long-winded religious way to say, 'Shut up.'

Penn Jillette

We come from a religious tradition that says we are all responsible for each other.

Ruth Messinger

He believes that we should focus our limited resources on our public schools. He also believes the legislation raises questions about potential conflicts with New Hampshire's Constitution in terms of sending public money to religious institutions.

Pam Walsh

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.

Paul Tillich

There is no question that philosophically he is pro-life, he is a very religious individual. But I think in his stint as a governor and attorney general of Missouri, he was fair and balanced and a person who applied the law fairly.

Rick Hardy

I don't know what to expect in Cuba, ... I think what the Holy Father is for is greater freedom for the church, and greater responsibility on the part of Catholics to exercise their religious freedom, and greater sensitivity on the parts of governments to recognize human rights.

John P. Foley

An exclusionary 'conference on religious dialogue' on 10 March will be nothing less than an act of religious discrimination.

Shimon Samuels

We don't want to have to tiptoe around. By law, the village has to give us zoning. As a religious institution, we're entitled to it. I don't see how we can lose.

Leah Goldstein

As long as we allow [HIV] to be tied to religious beliefs, we're always going to fight an unfair battle when it comes to HIV prevention and education.

Larry Parham

I accept the Holy Father's decision with gratitude and confidence, ... The confidence is based on the fact that I can count on the help of God. . . . The gratitude comes from the privilege of working with my brother bishops and priests, deacons and religious, whose generosity and zeal I have already experienced over the last four and a half years.

Theodore E. Mccarrick

It's hard to say what will result from this. What he said was exactly what he should have said. All sides should deal with terrorism and religious leaders should have a hand in stopping it.

Thomas Foley

It can potentially terminate a human life, and that's my overriding concern. Second to that, unless there is an exception for pharmacists that hold moral or religious objections, then it is bad law.

Rep. Dave Schultheis

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.

Jim Wallis

Jefferson wasn't really a primary author of the First Amendment. But Jefferson was the author of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, which is seen as kind of a precursor of the First Amendment. It was Jefferson's protégé, James Madison, who helped draft the First Amendment. So the metaphor is apt and it is important.

Rob Boston

I understand the anger of Muslims. And I understand the anger among religious Muslims at publications like these.

Joseph Sitruk

When an informant goes in and talks about jihad, and that you will be at the hand of Muhammad, and rattles sabers and builds up the religious fervor, to me that's a form of entrapment -- but legally it's not.

John Ransom

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Rosie O'donnell

It's very painful and disappointing that some major western newspapers have reprinted the cartoons tormenting the religious belief of the Muslims.

Morshed Khan

When you talk to a patient and they say 'God,' they can have a very different meaning than the one the doctor or medical student might have. We all have to be aware of this. There is absolutely no place for proselytizing a particular religious belief system in the practice of medicine.

Capt. Shawn Morrissey

I don't think there's any doubt that people derive enormous comfort from religion, and they should continue to do that. What they shouldn't expect is that religious activity is going to promote their health.

Richard Sloan

If physicians suggest, either directly or even implicitly, that faith and religious activity are associated with health, ... then they indirectly suggest the opposite -- which is that the disease and illness are associated with insufficient faith and insufficient devotion.

Richard Sloan

Our goal was a Bible curriculum that respects the religious views of parents and students, is of high academic quality, and meets court-defined standards.

Sheila Weber

Voodoo is not some kind of black magic cult. It's the distillation of very profound religious ideas that came over during the tragic era of slavery.

Wade Davis

Many have reacted so great in the shelter. I'm amazed at the resilience of these people. They're very religious people, sincerely so, and they have what it takes ... people are out there doing things and living.

Dr. Josephine Beebe

The monologue of the religious right is finally over and a new dialogue has begun.

Jim Wallis

This is an unsettled area of the law. The public policy issues are religious freedom versus the right not to be discriminated against.

Nathan Barankin

I do believe that one way to bring cultures together, to develop trust between people and countries and religions, is through education. And through music and art and basketball and activities and joys that people share worldwide, regardless of ethnic background or religious orientation.

Steve Kerr

ORTHODOX, n. An ox wearing the popular religious joke.

Ambrose Bierce

The idea is to protect all citizens from religious fanatics who preach hate.

Nazir Ahmed

I think he had less sensitivity to the religious needs of minorities than other justices.

Jonathan Lewin

There's nothing religious in the attack.

Major Gamal Hayudini

If they are faithful to the church, they don't ingest any illicit substances ever, ... They may have taken peyote in a religious context hundreds or thousands of times, and have never abused alcohol or cocaine. It's a distinctly pure population.

John Halpern

The certainty with which a religious belief is held is usually in direct proportion to its absurdity.

Donald Morgan

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

Amy Lee

It's faithful without being religious. It's a garden book but it's not about gardening. It's sort of inspirational but it's not a devotional.

Dori Hudson

I was just making a statement about how far people will go to their faith . . . like sleeping on a bed of nails or snake handling. Those kinds of things show how deeply people believe in God. So to me, this record is like religious folk art. It's kind of my statement.

Lucinda Williams

I occasionally find myself reluctant to be pulled into a world that's not mine, in the sense that I'm not a religious guy.

Fareed Zakaria

The new DirecTV Total Choice Family programming package is appropriate for viewing by family members of all ages and includes popular children's, religious and general family entertainment programming. We have answered the call from concerned parents and policymakers and have designed a programming package to meet the needs of DirecTV families.

Dan Fawcett

In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds-that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous.

Robert H. Jackson

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Junius

I'm not religious or anything, but to me it's great fun and it's nice to have a lot of kids. They take care of each other.

Stellan Skarsgard

The state guarantees the freedom of its citizens to practice their religion and also guarantees that they can conduct religious rituals.

Andi Mallarangeng

The issue is their speech and whether the government can ban them outright. Very few people are going to find that there is little social merit to their (church group's) speech. It's still religious expression and political expression.

John Blakeman

It is against our cultural, social and religious norms. We will protest if they hold it.

Liaquat Baluch

When you give tax dollars to a parent to pass it on to a school, it's still tax dollars flowing directly to a religious ministry.

Barry Lynn

I feel bad about it, of course. I feel bad because this is a religious place.

Abdul Motlib

The message is that it's not illegal for a city or county or state or even the nation to recognize its history, and we believe that's what our city seal is doing. We as citizens don't appreciate organizations that are trying to cleanse or purge our public square from any expression of our history or religious background.

Brandon Wallace

Having worked with bishops and priests, diocesan and religious, all over the world, I have no doubt that God does call homosexuals to the priesthood, and they are among the most dedicated and impressive priests I have met.

Father Timothy Radcliffe

He's a pretty jovial guy. He's very loyal, a very religious guy, very family-oriented young man. His mom and dad were always very important to him.

Doug Allison

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were burned alive with the genuinely kind intention of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.

Karl Popper

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Max Weber

Discrimination is on its face wrong. Funding it with state tax dollars is unacceptable. Our tax dollars should not fund a religious institution that teaches by example how to discriminate.

Christina Gilgor

Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man's conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God.

John Tyler

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry.

Wendy Wright

The first six months, I was visiting and writing poems about them. That was a big surprise. ... I'm not a conventionally religious person.

Lisa Williams

We can certainly say that those inside are afraid to leave, but I do not think ... that we can say they are being held hostage, ... The Israelis are saying that the religious leaders may leave the compound, but they're afraid to do so because they want to maintain the sanctity of the holy place.

Andrew White

Our religion prohibits us from having nuclear arms and our religious leader has prohibited it from the point of view of religious law. It's a closed road.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

They wouldn't meet our standards for what we publish in the paper. We have standards about language, religious sensitivity, racial sensitivity and general good taste.

Leonard Downie

The meeting will discuss latest issues and developments, and formulate the measures of the religious leaders to build a peaceful and prosperous region.

Din Syamsudin

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Charles Stanley

My opinion on him is the same for other alternative healers, including the religious who practice faith healing: It's all right to consult them, but it shouldn't be at the cost of disregarding biomedical interventions. There's always the risk that an ailment becomes more serious, perhaps even deadly, because of these delays.

Michael Tan

While many religious conservatives may have qualms with aspects of Mormon theology, they have even greater problems with religious bigotry. Any candidate that chooses to attack his faith in a personal fashion will surely run the risk of a backlash.

Michael Cromartie

Where does this leave us if our friends say, 'O.K., gay people, we're going to cut you loose because we have the religious right at our heels'? You don't make deals with bullies, and you don't cut your friends loose.

Kevin Cathcart

The whole idea of setting up a Catholics-only town or any religious town in a pluralistic society is very disturbing.

Frances Kissling

This statements are not the rantings of some religious nut, but what the Bible actually says, ... (They are) astounding facts which the minister or priest seldom discusses with his congregation.

James Tucker

These are amazing people. The most wonderful you'll ever meet. They are very religious. Despite everything they are happy and optimistic. People are coping through their faith.

Rachel Rosen

In community relations, you don't know for years the effect you've had. Building good relations is like nurturing a friendship over years. In a crisis, you can turn to your friend in another ethnic or religious community and say, 'I need your help.' Bill has been just a master at this kind of community building.

Jonathan Levine

She had a plan for entering a religious life.

Darlene Rodrigues

TURKEY, n. A large bird whose flesh when eaten on certain religious anniversaries has the peculiar property of attesting piety and gratitude. Incidentally, it is pretty good eating.

Ambrose Bierce

If you think about it, the (ultra-Orthodox) religious community is not going to movies and other things. These days, the kind of phone you carry is part of who you are. Some rabbis didn't like it, but that's the reality.

Matanel Shalom

Many Americans think these religious ideas should be taught in school because they believe them and they're true. But a lot of Americans say that because they think it's fair.

John Green

The council gave us a lot of support. They said belief in God is central to Scouting, and if some parts of Scouting are against your religious beliefs you don't have to honor that.

Saffet Catovic

It was the intellectual elite of the conservative movement that expressed the most concern, not the religious conservatives or the business conservatives.

Carl W. Tobias

This administration wears its religious beliefs on its sleeve at times. Now you have a patchwork of different policies with different states. It's going to add to the confusion and provoke a brain drain.

Mark Frankel

'Theatrical' keeps coming back to me, ... Something well done, well written, fun, not depressing, not dark, something that leaves people walking out feeling good -- some sort of inspirational but not religious feel to it.

Bonnie Hammer

It is not correct... to stray from the field of science while pretending to do science. It only creates confusion between the scientific plane and those that are philosophical or religious.

Fiorenzo Facchini

This was a terribly humiliating incident for her, and she felt like she was forced to choose between her religious beliefs and her classmates.

Michael Steinberg

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

Catullus

Religious attendance is not a mode of medical therapy. While this study was not intended for use in clinical decision making, these findings tell us that there is something to examine further.

Daniel Hall

The knee-jerk reaction is that there must be a bunch of conservatives . . . religious conservatives fighting for this, but it's not the case.

Tim Winter

The Army does not want to make people who have a true religious or moral or ethical reservation about killing other humans to be forced to do that.

Martha Rudd

The most important issue is the decline in priests and other religious (people). I hope a new pope would consider allowing married priests. There used to be married priests in the first centuries of the church. Priests should be given a choice. This would definitely increase numbers. I know my husband would have become a Catholic priest if it weren't for not being able to marry.

Claire Turner

America owes most of its social prejudices to the exaggerated religious opinions of the different sects which were so instrumental in establishing the colonies.

James F. Cooper

Secretary Albright's thoughts on the complexities of foreign policy in an age of religious extremism are required reading: bold, frank, clearly argued and informed by experience. This will be a powerful and enlightening contribution to our understanding of the present crisis.

Jonathan Burnham

So many different kinds of religious groups found this bill a bit troubling, so it may or not be that the Roman Catholic Church still has clout.

Nancy Ammerman

The Danish government urges all leaders, political and religious, in the countries concerned to call on their populations to remain calm and refrain from violence.

Per Stig Moeller

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the damnation of our neighbors.

Ambrose Bierce

Professionals should be able to practice their own religious beliefs without losing their jobs over it or being discriminated against.

Rep. Bryan Stevenson

This is not the first time the city has given land to a religious institution but we're the only one that has been through a public hearing process.

Salma Kazmi

I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

Linda Eastman Mccartney

He was always smiling and much more concerned about other people's problems. He had a very engaging personality and a wonderful way of ministering to people and supporting people. He could relate to all walks of life, all religious backgrounds.

Lisa Johnson

Jews helped shape the history of Monmouth County, like the other ethnic and religious groups.

Chairwoman Jean Klerman

A law on religious symbols in the school environment could stigmatize a whole community.

Dalil Boubakeur

It seemed there were no religious groups on campus that identified with the UCC, and I felt that by starting this group I could change that.

Dale Yurs

You have … a clear majority saying yes, you can display the Ten Commandments if you're doing it for other than a predominantly religious reason.

Francis Manion

Americans of all faiths should be free to travel without fear of being singled out based solely on their religious practices or associations.

Arsalan Iftikhar

As to the family, I have never understood how that fits in with the other ideals--or, indeed, why it should be an ideal at all. A group of closely related persons living under one roof; it is a convenience, often a necessity, sometimes a pleasure, sometimes the reverse; but who first exalted it as admirable, an almost religious ideal?

Dame Rose Macaulay

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before, ... You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

David Starkey

You walk around and see people studying their phones like religious documents, ... It's not hard to see where all this is going.

Art Howe

We respect the pharmacists' rights to hold personal, moral, religious beliefs, but they can't allow those beliefs to get in the way of serving their customers.

Abby Ottenhoff

Kwanzaa is neither political nor religious and, despite some misconceptions, it is not a substitute for Christmas.

Randy Taylor

I figured since we were going to be all the way over here, we should see some of the historic religious sites and cathedrals in Europe.

Jorge Torres