Religious Belief Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Christianity is the only system of faith which combines religious beliefs with corresponding principles of morality. It builds ethics on religion.

  Austin Phelps

  Religious, Principles, Ethics

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• A man's moral worth is not measured by what his religious beliefs are but rather by what emotional impulses he has received from Nature during his lifetime.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Men, Emotional

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• Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

  Richard Land

  Religious, Differences, Belief

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• Masonry is not a religion.
  He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.

  Albert Pike

  Religious, Belief, Masonry

  Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com

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• I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.

  E. O. Wilson

  Religious, Believe, Different

  "The Fascinated God: What Science Says to Faith and Faith to Scientists". Book by Robert E. Zinser, 2003.

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• With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

  John Ankerberg

  Religious, Buddhist, Atheist

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• There are two forms of disappointment that interest me: religious and political disappointment. Religious disappointment flows from the realization that religious belief is not an option for us. Political disappointment flows from the fact that there is injustice - that we live in a world that is radically unjust and violent, where might seems to equal right, where the poor are exploited by the rich, etc.

  Simon Critchley

  Religious, Disappointment, Two

  Simon Critchley, Carl Cederström, Todd Kesselman (2011). “Impossible Objects”, p.31, Polity

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• If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Understanding, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.71

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• How many families, whose members have been dispersed and scattered far and wide, in the restless struggles of life, are then reunited, and meet once again in that happy state of companionship and mutual goodwill, which is a source of such pure and unalloyed delight; and one so incompatible with the cares and sorrows of the world, that the religious belief of the most civilized nations, and the rude traditions of the roughest savages, alike number it among the first joys of a future condition of existence, provided for the blessed and happy!

  Charles Dickens

  Religious, Struggle, Blessed

  Charles Dickens (2016). “The Pickwick Papers: The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.310, Pan Macmillan

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• On religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this Supreme Being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Jesus, Powerful

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief.

  Jim Shaw

  Religious, People, Belief

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In my platoon, we came from different parts of the country, with different backgrounds, different religious beliefs, different political beliefs—and yet we all put those differences aside. Fundamentally, I believe that’s what the American people expect of Congress as well. We all ought to be able to come together in Washington and do what’s best for our America.

  Seth Moulton

  Country, Religious, Believe

  "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.

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• Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without doubt there is no faith.

  Jon Meacham

  Religious, Doubt, Inquiry

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• The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.

  Peter Medawar

  Religious, Humorous, School

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• No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

  Hugo Black

  Religious, Church, Attendance

  Writing for the court, Everson v. Board of Education, 330 U.S. 1, 1947.

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• Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse.

  Mary Garden

  Religious, Sex, Children

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  My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Religious, War, Battle

  Stonewall Jackson's speech to Captain John D. Imboden (July 24, 1861) as quoted in John Selby "Stonewall Jackson As Military Commander" (p. 25), 1968.

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• This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

  John Howard

  Religious, Ideas, Racism

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The values derived from religious belief will not - and should not - be accepted as part of the public morality unless they are shared by the pluralistic community at large, by consensus.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Community, Belief

  "Religious Belief and Public Morality: A Catholic Governor's Perspective". Mario Cuomo's Speech at University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana, archives.nd.edu. September 13, 1984.

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• Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

  Mario Cuomo

  Religious, Government, People

  New York (State). Governor (1983- : Cuomo), Mario Matthew Cuomo (1989). “Public Papers of Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 1984”

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• We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

  Christine Caine

  God, Christian, Religious

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Apr 10, 2017

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• I believe in the separation of church and state. We all have our own religious beliefs. There are people out there who are atheists, who don't believe at all. . . . They are citizens of Minnesota, and I have to respect that.

  Jesse Ventura

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

  Jesse Ventura (2016). “Sh*t Politicians Say: The Funniest, Dumbest, Most Outrageous Things Ever Uttered By Our "Leaders"”, p.155, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Christianity could not content itself with building up its own altar; it was absolutely forced to undertake the destruction of the heathen altars. Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Building Up, Facts

  Adolf Hitler (1971). “Mein Kampf”, Mariner Books

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