Religious Faith Quotes - Page 4

• You are never dedicated to do 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 or any other kind of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Religious, Knowledge, People

  Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance pt. 2, ch. 13 (1974)

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• In Barack Obama, Democrats have put forth a man of strong religious faith who is comfortable connecting his spiritual life to his public role as a policymaker.

  Mike McCurry

  Spiritual, Religious, Strong

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• It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.

  Mitt Romney

  Religious, Blessed, Exercise

  Mitt Romney's commencement address on gay marriage and religion at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 12, 2012.

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• Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Religious, Men, Aberration

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.282, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Beautiful, Religious, Land

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “Small Wonder”, p.48, Faber & Faber

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• Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths

  Tony Benn

  Religious, Other Worlds, Politics

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• To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

  Jostein Gaarder

  Religious, Reason, Prove

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• I hear Jesus telling us to stop negotiating with Him, to stop offering something we think we have in exchange for His blessings.

  Larry Crabb

  Jesus, Blessing, Thinking

  Larry Crabb (2012). “Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy”, p.18, WaterBrook

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• The idea, therefore, that religious faith is somehow a sacred human convention—distinguished, as it is, both by the extravagance of its claims and by the paucity of its evidence—is really too great a monstrosity to be appreciated in all its glory. Religious faith represents so uncompromising a misuse of the power of our minds that it forms a kind of perverse, cultural singularity—a vanishing point beyond which rational discourse proves impossible.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Ideas, Mind

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company

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• As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake.

  Juliet Marillier

  Religious, Deeds, Sake

  Juliet Marillier (2011). “Heart's Blood”, p.102, Pan Macmillan

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• My faith in the expertise of physicists like Richard Feynman, for instance, permits me to endorse—and, if it comes to it, bet heavily on the truth of—a proposition that I don't understand. So far, my faith is not unlike religious faith, but I am not in the slightest bit motivated to go to my death rather than recant the formulas of physics. Watch: E doesn't equal mc2, it doesn't, it doesn't! I was lying, so there!

  Daniel Dennett

  Religious, Lying, Richard Feynman

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• One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution ... than to anything else.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Teaching, Loss

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• Being an ordinary scientist and an ordinary Christian seems perfectly natural to me. It is also perfectly natural for the many scientists I know who are also people of deep religious faith.

  William Daniel Phillips

  Christian, Religious, People

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• The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

  Herbert Hoover

  Sports, Baseball, Religious

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.

  Mark Hopkins

  Religious, Father, Believe

  MARK HOPKINS (1862). “BACCALAUREATE SERMONS, AND OCCASIONAL DISCOURSES”, p.18

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• Whether or not enlightenment is a plausible goal for us is a vital question for our lives. If it is possible for us to attain such perfect enlightenment ourselves, our whole sense of meaning and our place in the universe immediately changes. To be open to the possibility is to be a spiritual seeker, no matter what our religion. Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal.

  Robert Thurman

  Spiritual, Religious, Perfect

  FaceBook post by Robert Thurman from Feb 23, 2017

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• Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

  Robert Thurman

  God, Religious, Goal

  Robert Thurman (1999). “Inner Revolution”, p.54, Penguin

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• While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Character

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• Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Familiar, Critical

  "Bombing Our Illusions" by Sam Harris, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 10, 2005.

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• I guess my religious faith sustained me more than anything else. Family is also very important. If I didn't have children, it would have been too difficult. Even if you are strong, you still need people who would support you all the way.

  Corazon Aquino

  Religious, Strong, Children

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• Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Fear, Religion

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.139, Tara Publishing

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• Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture.

  Michele Bachmann

  Religious, Culture, Morality

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• 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.

  Jimmy Carter

  Christian, Religious, Wall

  "Jimmy Carter Interview: Real Story Behind Egypt Israeli Peace Deal". Interview with Paul Brandeis Raushenbush, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

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• Absolutely no religious rites of any kind, relating to any religious faith, should be associated with my funeral.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Religious, Funeral, Kind

  "Science Fiction Writer Arthur C. Clarke Dead at Age 90", www.foxnews.com. March 19, 2008.

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• I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.

  Alan Alda

  Religious, Lying, Government

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