I'm religious. I think this is something God had planned for me.

Clay Aiken

Evangelisation is what evangelicals are supposed to do. It is a central element of their religious identity that they will certainly be unwilling to erase.

Frederick Clarkson

If a religious community is not registered with the authorities, that is no reason to restrict it. We cannot allow the mistakes of the Soviet period to be repeated. We must respect religious freedom.

Arbol Argynov

All of the members of this cell shared the same religious convictions, an Islamic lifestyle, a feeling of being out of place in unfamiliar cultural surroundings that they were not used to.

Kay Nehm

If a believer calls me and tells me they are offended, I will apologize. I am a believer myself, and I understand that one must approach religious issues delicately.

Tatyana Kaminskaya

No American citizen should ever have to pass some else's religious test to qualify for a federally funded job.

Chet Edwards

There is a religious war going on in our country for the soul of America.

Patrick Buchanan

There was a lot of stretching going on to make it seem like there was any religion involved with it. It's a one-minute statement with nothing religious in it. But the perception of the voters is what counts.

Jim Cashman

The fact that this agency so quickly and willingly gave in to the demands of an extremist group who uses fringe religious bias and junk science to advance their hurtful agenda is outrageous. We deserve answers, and our GLBT families deserve the same resources as everyone else.

Jody M. Huckaby

Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.

Phil Roberts

We decided a couple of religious-discrimination issues would be at the top of our agenda.

Jim Backlin

The decision was taken last night because of a fatwa (religious decree) issued last year, since the program is culturally inappropriate.

Humoud Alghodaini

Finding out the religious background of your ancestors will also help you understand their actions and possibly the attitudes that you inherited.

Shirley Sloat

Religion has been in and out of American politics for nearly our whole history. Right now the conservative religious message is more vocal.

Douglas Laycock

It's not a religious play, but rather how they [Mother Miriam and Livingstone] play off each other and the affect people have on each other. They are just as vulnerable as anybody else. None of us are completely as we appear. We all have exteriors that hide an awful lot.

Jordan Smith

When you go back into the ice age, you're tapping into our species. It's philosophic, it's religious, it's scientific.

Al Goodyear

I admire the serene assurance of those who have religious faith. It is wonderful to observe the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

Mark Twain

You got to raise doubts about his character, to give some pause to the religious conservatives who are looking on him as a very different candidate.

William Binning

Inciting religious or ethnic hatreds in this manner is not acceptable.

Kurtis Cooper

Bangladesh is caught in the vortex of religious extremism and terrorism, the biggest challenge to its peace and stability.

Shahedul Anam Khan

To equate intelligent design to mythology is really an absurdity, and it's just another example of labeling anybody who proposes (intelligent design) to be simply a religious nut, ... That's the reason for this little charade.

John Calvert

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

William Law

I've come to believe that coercion in matters of religion are self-defeating. If you leave people alone, the great majority will find their way to the center of one of the 15 or 16 great religious traditions.

J. Gordon Melton

Due to personal and religious beliefs, she elected not to do that and we've continued to support her decision and care for her babies that are born.

Leonard Weisman

Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.

A. Philip Randolph

She started intensely praying and Bible reading and religious music. She was commanded in an extraordinary and compelling way to cut off her own legs, arms and head and give them to God.

Dr. Xiaoyan Wu

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Oh my God, that was a religious experience, ... In the words of Homer Simpson, the pig is a magical animal.

Anthony Bourdain

Engaging in religious bigotry on a wholesale scale is not helpful to the Air Force. So there must be something else in the balance that they feel is worth clutching.

Melinda Morton

Man, it's just beautiful. I should also add that this record is bigger than King and he knows it. The real story here is about Sister Gertrude Morgan ? her lyrics, her passion and her art are borderline religious to me. If there was one artist past/present/future that I could sit down with for a roadside chat, it would be her.

Andy Hurwitz

I appreciate everyone's morality and religious views. But my tuition goes to a public university. I go to a public university, so I encourage those who are offended or questioning my intentions to come out and see what it's all about.

Liz Gordon

When you reach a point in your life and you know you want to meet someone who shares your religious or ethnic beliefs, this gives you another avenue to do so.

Gail Laguna

This is an illustration of a new sectarianism where somebody is considered incapable of making an objective decision because they hold ethical, philosophical or religious views.

Tony Abbott

We don't really worry about being called a religious ensemble.

Andrew Park

It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.

Denise Caruso

What we must look for here is, first, religious and moral principles; secondly, gentlemanly conduct; thirdly, intellectual ability.

Thomas Arnold

We have religious holidays and we have secular holidays. I see Kwanzaa as an opportunity for African-Americans to reaffirm ourselves if we choose to, a chance to rebuild and renew our focus. I see Kwanzaa as a holiday of the spirit.

Jessica Harris

People who sow seeds of discord by preaching tribalism, racism and religious misunderstanding should find another place to go.

Jakaya Kikwete

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things until the truth in them becomes yo.

Frederick W. Robertson

Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.

Jessica Stern

We wanted to respect all the partners out there and their religious beliefs.

Gary Karr

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

For the next few weeks at least the grooms will be taught by their religious leaders how to lead a good conjugal life according to Islamic law. Then they will meet their brides for the first time.

Jahirul Islam

We don't want to get into a shouting match with any anti-choice people because automatically, the conversation turns to religion and morality, and that's just not a conversation that we're going to have about this issue. It's not a religious issue, it's not a moral issue. It's a medical issue and a privacy issue.

Nsombi Lambright

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will.

Roger Williams

Those are still religious objects.

Gary Laderman

It's a clear statement by the Vatican that gay men are not welcome in seminaries and religious orders.

James Martin

In the long run would be bad for religious freedom.

David Saperstein

If she's confirmed, the Bush administration will deliver what it promised to the religious right. The entire court shifts to the right on this issue.

Martha Davis

You don't accidentally lose an ax that keeps you alive. They did it for religious reasons — they are offerings.

Jaap Brakke

[Hyman has previously attacked the ACLU; for example, on the March 31 edition of] The Point, ... Not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

Mark Hyman

The religious public has a commitment that is above us.

Shaul Goldstein

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

James D. Watson

Mike was very religious; that was something I didn't know. But he didn't push his religion on anyone.

Brett Bailey

To say that every individual has the right to religious freedom is not to condone religious indifferentism or irresponsibility, nor is it to promote the installation of a supermarket of religions.

Francis Arinze

I am not the type of person who would call into question the religious beliefs of others.

Ryan Church

The attraction to go there was the academics and the religious background for the kids.

Steve Rosenberg

These meetings may be at a church, but they are not religious meetings. They are anti-casino meetings. We wanted to get active right off the bat with this issue.

Dan Peters

This kind of tasteless and trivial portrayal of God does a disservice to the millions of American television viewers who have deeply felt religious beliefs.

Nihad Awad

A dangerous thing because every sect will seek orders from its religious leadership and this means that there will be no rule by law or constitution.

Mullah Bakhtiyar

The most religious nation in the world is India. The least religious nation in the world is Sweden. We're a nation of Indians, ruled by Swedes.

Jerry Sutton

The coaches just ask me to be smart and do everything I can to keep myself healthy. They've all really respected my religious beliefs.

Saleem Rasheed

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre De Coubertin

Mama was very religious.

Charles Moore

Generally speaking, private and religious schools are not subject to the First Amendment.

Charles Haynes

We're getting a lot less religious about the operating system to find the areas where we can grow.

Andy Bechtolsheim

For us, these sites have a spiritual, almost religious feel to them. It's almost sacrilege to deface them.

David Coulson

Conserving nature is one of God's orders and part of our religious teachings.

Hasyim Muzadi

That would be a dramatic religious reorientation of the company. That's what they need to do. That's their only hope of arresting their market decline.

James Poyner

We're presenting this as something that's everywhere and cuts across political, ethnic and religious lines.

Jenji Kohan

The U.S. has confidence in him, he has credibility with the Western world and he is liberal in his thinking. He understands the damage that extremism and religious fanaticism has done to this country.

Talat Masood

The troubling thing is the court has approved a federal system that forces taxpayers to subsidize religious indoctrination.

Michael Simpson

Defending the religious freedom of Christians.

The Foundation

Some people feel it is a wonderful thing, providing patients with control they need. We have other people who either on ethical or religious grounds see it as an abomination.

Lucy Noone

The fine tradition of the Fifth Dalai Lama's patriotism, devotion to religious affairs and bringing benefits to the masses is worth being carried forward by Tibetan religious circles.

Liu Yandong

This whole religious rule book just needs to be burned, and we need to reinvent the rules. Otherwise, Christianity is going to fade away.

Craig Gross

Inciting religious or ethnic hatred in this manner is not acceptable.

Janelle Hironimus

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility to the religious. Such results are not only not compelled by the Constitution, but, it seems to me, are prohibited by it.

Arthur J. Goldberg

It is precisely this kind of anti-Christian religious litmus test that many Americans find deeply offensive. Our nation is founded on Judeo-Christian principles which have made it one of the freest nations in the world.

Wendy Wright

But at this time we have no information regarding a specific imminent attack against civilian or religious targets.

Giuseppe Pisanu

I am shocked frankly that it is high as 13 percent in the US, because the US is one of the most religious nations in the world. In terms of the nature of its Christianity, it is one of the more conservative because of the large number of Evangelicals.

Andrew Grenville

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Stephen King

Tying together historical evidence, religious works and forensic data, this documentary gives us a fresh glimpse into the history of a man whose life and death has been greatly deliberated upon throughout the ages.

Rena Golden

The anti-choice forces are political extremists and religious fundamentalists, who are looking to make women subservient, powerless and unequal.

Cheryl Sabel

For us, holding on to religious rules, and following them, and refraining from what's forbidden, and being diligent with our duties, what do we call that? That's what we call freedom.

Muqtada Al Sadr

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

The primary parts are the wings and the tails. They are the parts that are used the most in regalia and creating religious artifacts. The head and claws would be next.

Bernadette Atencio

There is a religious element, there is a cultural element and there is the fun element.

Rachel Bolton

Many of our customers want to know that for political, religious or environmental reasons.

Sarah Kenney

The Big Bang theory was controversial because many scientists thought it had philosophical and even religious overtones they didn't like.

Michael Behe

Their living room is lined floor-to-ceiling with religious and nonfiction books. They, like many younger, educated Bangladeshi, are more overtly devout than their parents. They are more educated about the tenets of their religion.

Peter Ford

Iraqi forces will be defensive in nature, composed of volunteers only. The military will serve their people without religious or sectarian or tribal or political discrimination.

Ali Allawi

We decided it did not meet our longstanding policy of not publishing words or imagery that are grossly offensive to religious, racial, or ethnic groups. It's a judgment we face daily and have made many times before.

Martin Baron

We urge the US Government to stop interfering in China's religious affairs under the guise of the religion issue.

Liu Jianchao

He was a soldier in the Taliban, he did it for religious reasons, he did it as a Muslim, and history overcame him.

James Brosnahan

Well, there are many times when I don't feel strong or brave at all, but I've always been a religious person and my faith has been a great comfort to me.

Gloria Hunniford

Americans have the right to meet in their homes for prayer or to study religious materials without government interference.

Rick Nelson

Mass on Sunday is the traditional time for families, but it's primarily a religious feast.

Glenn Duffy

It was a little bit of an intimidating situation. Essentially, I walked into a small conference room with about 10 Muslim religious leaders, all men, whom I had not met before.

Wazhma Mojaddidi

The religious side says it is a lifelong commitment. But the financial side also says it is a lifelong commitment.

Seth Harp

All it has to do is put the pledge as it was before and say that we are one nation, indivisible, instead of dividing us on religious basis.

Michael Newdow

Family-oriented television series and your irreverent movie, that apparently belittles every religious tenet embraced by our show.

Miramax Films

The problem is not with people or churches that are politically active. It is with a party that has gone so far in adopting a sectarian agenda that it has become the political extension of a religious movement.

John C. Danforth

From this vantage point, religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.

Larry Graham

It's not right. It's not fair. And it's offensive, ... who believed it was their religious duty to wage holy war against this country.

Marc Kasowitz

This is an inviolable question of principle here in the land of Voltaire and Zola. We are willing to appear before the courts if some think the drawings go too far, but we are certainly not willing to give way to the desires of religious extremists.

Philippe Val

There is no confrontation in our country - neither racial nor religious. There are no wars on our land, ... Name another post-Soviet state which can boast the same values.

Alexander Lukashenko

I’m the world’s least happy atheist. I miss having religious faith, but trying to have it seems like trying to be in love with someone that you’re not in love with.

Lisa Williams

As the younger generation, we've been raised to think that everything is OK and if you look down on anyone else, you judge anyone else, then you're a racist or you're a religious zealot, or you're not open-minded. So I think that people my age have been forced to be too accepting and too open-minded, whereas older people are sometimes narrow- minded.

Ben Anderson

The perception is that religious education is just for children, but that's not the case. It would be unfair to leave the adults out. It's for the whole family, the community. We're always encouraged to have everyone join in and grow in their faith.

Gladys Pozza

To have had a religious upbringing at least assures that in your own mind you are a Jew first, and the object of other people's dislike second.

John Gross

Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

Michael Palin

I know it's difficult for my American friends to acknowledge it, but part of the reason that religious conservatives, Christian conservatives and others, have been so successful is that they tap into the commonsense instincts of so many Americans.

Joseph Loconte

Feinstein is dipping her toe into the very ugly, muddy waters of religious bigotry. America's Founding Fathers considered religious beliefs to be an asset, even essential to public officeholders. Sadly, Sen. Feinstein apparently believes the opposite of those wise men to whom we owe gratitude for our free and strong country.

Wendy Wright

The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.

George Jellinek

There are 14 stations where you stop and pray and read the religious and symbolic meanings of each station.

Marion Ferry

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

Johann Most

Our policies are based on the principles of religious doctrines. They are not policies that in any way advocate hatred or unkind treatment of any individuals.

Carri Jenkins

He told me he was hopeful of getting Negro players into the game. He was very sure about it. He was a very religious man. That was 15 years before Jackie Robinson.

Howdy Groskloss

For whatever reason, people are very interested in religion and religious themes right now. We are living in a religious age. You don?t have to be a believer to be interested in these themes.

Michael Rosenfeld

No white group has founded a major religion on this planet. The major religious were started in the Orient and the Middle East, not in Greece and Rome. I always knew you racists didn't have a prayer.

Jane Elliot

The great majority were detained for non-violent expression of their political and religious beliefs.

John Kamm

I believe that our audience can, through our reports - on radio and the Web - get a very detailed sense of what's depicted in the cartoon. By not posting it on the Web, we demonstrate a respect for deeply held religious beliefs.

Bill Marimow

We have increased the number of pickets around religious places.

Ravi Pawar

We aren't a religious theater company. Our productions are accessible no matter what your faith.

Jason Bowen

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

Shelley Winters

The commission is all about identifying and eliminating discrimination and hate-based violence, whether it's religious, racial, gender, sexual orientation or ethnic or cultural bias. Intolerance of any kind is wrong. We'll be working to change policies as well.

Cheryle Jackson

INDIGESTION, n. A disease which the patient and his friends frequently mistake for deep religious conviction and concern for the salvation of mankind. As the simple Red Man of the western wild put it, with, it must be confessed, a certain force: 'Plenty well, no pray; big bellyache, heap God.'

Ambrose Bierce

I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my freedom to have thoughts that are different from their own. As a punishment, they demanded my execution by hanging. I was forced to leave my own country. I had to pay heavily for the sole reason that I believe in human rights and freedom of expression.

Taslima Nasrin

In the past, the argument [for refusing funding] was that we didn't have enough children enrolled or the religious balance wasn't right. Now they are saying there are too many places. The landscape has changed. There's a real gap between rhetoric and policy. We are concerned that the route forward for integrated education has been cut off.

Philip O'sullivan

RITE, n. A religious or semi-religious ceremony fixed by law, precept or custom, with the essential oil of sincerity carefully squeezed out of it.

Ambrose Bierce

I have the right to object. We are more than pill counters or robots. We have religious and professional beliefs.

Cristina Gonzalez

Arab Muslims need to be part of the creative process, and they just aren't. When (a vilified religious group) becomes part of the process, it becomes different - not necessarily positive, but balanced.

Jack Shaheen

I don't think McCain does that. He is only lightly attracted to the religious right, or not attracted, if you watch his shifting position on gay marriage.

Dave Woodard

EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.

Ambrose Bierce

When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.

Daniel Bell

By approving the city of Chicago's O'Hare expansion plan, the FAA has done nothing less than authorize the desecration of St. Johannes Cemetery and promote the careless disregard for the First Amendment and federal religious freedom law.

Jared Leland

Odds are the findings are significantly related to the underlying religious beliefs of this population.

Richard Suzman

Any decision that was made was not based on the fact that the content was religious in nature.

Rodney Young

This is a very important decision, Judge Jones has reaffirmed that in this country, public servants shall not use their public office to impose their religious views on others.

Stephen Harvey

If you're a religious person, you could call that an act of God.

John Rice

Authorizing and subsidizing religious discrimination.

Chet Edwards

I'm not really religious but very spiritual. I give money to this company that manufactures hearing aids on a regular basis. More people should really hear me sing. I have a gift from God.

Christina Aguilera

I've got a group who can't play music, one bad comedian plus boyfriend, a nervous breakdown calling himself a magician, two coachloads of 70-year-old religious maniacs looking for a fight and a fancy-dress contest that nobody knew about.

Alan Bleasdale

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

Clive Bell

My religious belief requires me to oppose something like that.

Terry Parish

The loudest religious voices, whether they're Muslim voices, Christian voices, whatever ... are the people who advocate divisiveness, conflict, differences.

John C. Danforth

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Bruno Bauer

[To regain power] the Democrats just need to stick to the message that the American people are the most important assets. Most people who are religious really do want to help society.

Marla Selvidge

The Democratic Party must not allow the religious right to dictate the conversation on moral values.

Kristin Matthews

The critical question in this case seems to be whether the 'duty to God' in the Boy Scout oath makes the Scouts a religious organization.

Robert O'neil

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Bruce Kent

In doing so, we remember that people from every major religious tradition perished in the Sept. 11 attacks.

George Wolfe

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

Konrad Lorenz

If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If THEY are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Isaac Asimov

Ethnic origin and religious beliefs are not so important criteria for the future premier.

Alu Alkhanov

Government can't fund preaching or proselytizing, but it can fund the good social work being done by religious organizations.

Jim Towey

Israel should have moved them to other locations if it respects religious beliefs. It is evading its responsibility.

Muhammad Dahlan

We do not read (the law) to elevate accommodation of religious observances over an institution's need to maintain order and safety, ... We have no cause to believe that (the law) would not be applied in an appropriately balanced way, without sensitivity to security concerns.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People find in Oprah what they can't find in other religious or spiritual leaders.

Marcia Nelson

I am glad they are going to have someone from every island and every ethnic and religious group on that commission. I really wanted students to be a part of this commission as well. You need the older and the younger mix. That mix works really well.

Gregory Hunt

Lenin should be buried, because the idea of mummification is outside any cultural and religious context in Russia.

Orthodox Church

After this, I will be going to church more often. I have become very religious through this whole situation.

Scott Rush

I want to be very clear. The office is the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, so we're not just focused on religious organizations. We're interested in achieving important civic purposes.

John Diiulio

A legal or religious ceremony by which two persons of the opposite sex solemnly agree to harass and spy on each other... until death do them join.

Elbert Hubbard

If California elects a non-celibate homosexual, it will set off a firestorm: It is an action that would show contempt for what it is like to be part of a global religious family.

Cynthia Brust

Sikhs are united on religious issues, but they do need their own representative bodies in states they live in.

Manjit Singh

About how the courts have steadily chiseled away at religious foundations of the country for the past 40 years.

Tony Perkins

They regard it as a very simple matter of religious and civil liberty, ... and that they should be able to do this as they have been doing it for 200 years.

Paul Bew

Christian Exodus doesn't seek to institute a theocracy, but we do want a return of our religious liberties that were once so preciously guarded in America.

Cory Burnell

We can trust our doctors to be professional, to minister equally to their patients without regard to their political or religious beliefs. But we can no longer trust our professors to do the same.

David Horowitz

The victims in this case included a not-for-profit corporation and a religious institution operating schools, hospitals, and convents.

Thomas Barnett

He's always happy and very polite and kind, and I'd like people to know how talented myself, my associates, family and friends think he is. He writes religious as well as everyday poetry and even some that begin each line with the letters of a person's name.

Lisa Richardson

Texas, of course, has a large minority population, and it has a very religious population compared to the rest of the nation.

David Popenoe

But this is not so much a religious objection, this is a human issue. It's about human beings and human dignity. A human embryo is a human being.

Michael Sheedy

It becomes us in humility to make our devout acknowledgments to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for the inestimable civil and religious blessings with which we are favored.

James Polk

All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

Of course the detention and the threat to seize the pastor's home are not pleasant. If a religious community is not registered with the authorities, that is no reason to restrict it.

Arbol Argynov

I also think he doesn't yet understand where the line should be drawn between coaching responsibilities and his religious faith. And the reason I believe that is evidence of that fact continually comes up in the press.

Peter Simonson

Bat Masterson said he didn't know anybody Wyatt couldn't whip without his guns. A lot of times Wyatt didn't carry guns...because if he carried guns he had to kill somebody - and he would kill somebody - but he didn't want to. He was a very religious man.

Charles Holmes

How it is looked at and interpreted comes from one's own mind, and we cannot control how people think. If you want it to be a religious symbol, then you can see it as such.

Sharon Fisher

(Judas) may have thought that when Jesus met with the priests, it would just be to talk. He had misjudged the extent to which religious authorities despised Jesus. Then he found out he had literally handed his friend over to death. It may have been a well-intentioned act, and he had to have felt a deep remorse, which probably led to his suicidal death.

Gary Herion

Students who are out can make up homework or assignments that they missed. We are trying to be sensitive around the religious holidays.

Pat Willett

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

William Howard Taft

I have a huge issue with people pushing religious beliefs on to me as well. I guess, to a certain extent, I pretty much know who I am.

Dominic Monaghan

How would you feel if someone gave you a pair of blue jeans and your religious beliefs didn't allow you to wear them? They don't have much control after a disaster.

Billie Cathey

Three-quarters of the film links directly Islamic religious practices with terrorism.

Nihad Awad

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

Joan Smith

There is no room at all, in the hiring process, which is heavily scripted, for revealing political and religious orientation.

Stanley Fish

They should not be required to compromise their religious identity as a condition of participating in a public program that assists people in need.

Pete Hoekstra

We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.

Liu Jianchao

This was a fundamentalist Christian organization in character that harangued the town's population on religious themes.

Victor Soto

How inarticulate most teenagers were about their religious faith.

Christian Smith

Karachi is mourning the death of so many religious leaders and scholars.

Shahid Ghori

I have the same sense of the power and virtue of knowledge that some people get from a religious background.

Walter Gilbert

We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself.

Miguel Serrano

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Frederick Law Olmsted

He who sows the ground with care and diligence acquires a greater stock of religious merit than he could gain by the repetition of ten thousand prayers.

Zoroaster

I think every citizen in Burlington has a right to voice their opinion and participate in the local political process no matter who they are or what they are or where they come from or what their religious beliefs are. But for me to base all of my decisions based on my reading of the Holy Bible just isn't going to happen.

Tim Scott

The center is for more than just religious research. We encourage non-members of the church to use the facilities for their own genealogical research.

Deanda Line