Religious Belief Quotes - Page 5

• To abdicate from the rule of reason and substitute for it an authentication of belief by the intentness and degree of conviction with which we hold it can be perilous and destructive. Religious beliefs give a spurious spiritual dimension to tribal enmities.

  Peter Medawar

  Spiritual, Religious, Giving

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• Those people who want to express their religious beliefs on public property should enjoy the same rights that we provide to those protesting the war in Iraq.

  Ernest Istook

  Religious, War, Rights

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• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  Walker Evans

  Religious, Stars, War

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• In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and of adders.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Men, Rose

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Cutting, Rights

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• I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

  Martin Rees

  Religious, Fighting, Thinking

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Religious, Political Will, Law

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• Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

  William Bennett

  Christian, Religious, Belief

  William John Bennett (1994). “The De-valuing of America: The Fight for Our Culture and Our Children”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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• Because morality is a social necessity, the moment faith in god is banished, man's gaze turns from god to man and he becomes socially conscious. Religious belief prevented the growth of a sense of realism. But atheism at once makes man realistic and alive to the needs of morality.

  Goparaju Ramachandra Rao

  Religious, Men, Growth

  "The Need of Atheism". Book by Goparaju Ramachandra Rao, 1980.

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• Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

  Richard Rohr

  Religious, Belief, Made

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• If, anywhere, brethren of a particular religious belief have been excluded from this Degree [18° Knight Rose Croix], it merely shows how gravely the purposes and plan of Masonry may be misunderstood. For whenever the door of any Degree is closed against him who believes in one God and the soul's immortality, on account of the other tenets of his faith, that Degree is Masonry no longer.

  Albert Pike

  Religious, Believe, Doors

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• Differences in religious beliefs, politics, social status, and position are all secondary. When we look at someone with compassion, we are able to see beyond these secondary differences and connect to the primary essence that binds all humans together as one.

  Dalai Lama

  Wisdom, Religious, Compassion

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• Love and kindness are the basis of my religious beliefs. The rituals and outward signs are not as important as one's actions and deeds. Religion should be a path to God, not something to fight about.

  Bernie Siegel

  Religious, Kindness, Fighting

  Bernie Siegel (2013). “Prescriptions For Living: Inspirational Lessons for a Joyful, Loving Life”, p.30, Random House

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• One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Political

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Christian, Religious, Adults

  Stephen L. Carter (1993). “The Culture of Disbelief: How American Law and Politics Trivialize Religious Devotion”, Basic Books

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• If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd, because - first of all - Islam demands no such thing; and secondly, the only country in the world in which women can't drive is Saudi Arabia. The inability to understand the difference between a cultural practice and religious belief is shocking among self-described intellectuals.

  Reza Aslan

  Leadership, Wisdom, Country

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• When a person's religious beliefs cause him to deny the evidence of science, or for whom public policy morphs into a battle with the devil, shouldn't that be a subject for discussion and debate?

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Battle, Devil

  "Why Are Religious Beliefs Off Limits?" By Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• I absolutely believe that people should show respect to everybody, regardless of their lifestyle, regardless of their beliefs, religious beliefs or any other kind of belief.

  Rick Warren

  Religious, Believe, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Faith in public life does not mean that God tells you to bomb another country or to go get Saddam Hussein. Faith in public life means that every child, regardless of their religious belief, should have health care and be able to go to school. Because my faith saying I can bomb Iraq is the same as your faith saying you can take over a passenger plane and fly it into the World Trade Center.

  Jeremiah Wright

  Country, Religious, Children

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Religious, Groups, Different

  Source: www.independent.ie

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• I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Order, Religion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Collected Works: (1917:0ct.-1918:Jul.)”

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• I find most famous Christians to be full of themselves and of prejudice and self-loathing, masquerading as devout religious belief. I find all fundamentalism to be terrifying and very destructive.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Religious, Self

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.

  Eugenie Scott

  Religious, Love You, Believe

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• I'm an atheist. I'm not neutral about religion, I'm hostile to it. I think it is a positively bad idea, not just a false one. And I mean not just organized religion, but religious belief itself.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Religious, Atheist, Mean

  "Christopher Hitchens On Mother Theresa". Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 16, Number 4, www.webpages.uidaho.edu.

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• However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Successful, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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