Religious Person Quotes

• A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Goal, Perception

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Money, Atheist

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• In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Giving Up, Struggle

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.48, Broadway Books

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• We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Religious, Heart, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Ideas, Religion

  Letter to Guy H. Raner Jr. (28 September 1949), from article by Michael R. Gilmore in Skeptic magazine, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1997.

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• I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

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• It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

  Albert Einstein

  God, Religious, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.43, Princeton University Press

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• What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Atheist, Humility

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.446, Princeton University Press

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• A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Love, Encouragement, Religious

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.289, Macmillan

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• I am a Christian, but I also dont really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a spiritual person.

  Haylie Duff

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

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• I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

  Youth Lagoon

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

  "Youth Lagoon: Out Of The House, Into The Bughouse". Interview with Alexandria Symonds, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 5, 2013.

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• The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Religious, Buddhist

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• I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Mom, Religious, Dad

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

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• I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.

  Mandy Moore

  Spiritual, Religious, Believe

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

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• I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

  Ja Rule

  Spiritual, Religious, Higher Power

  "Ja Rule: 'I'm in Love with a Church Girl' Interview with Kam Williams". archive.eurweb.com. October 8, 2013.

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• I respect all religions, but I'm not a deeply religious person. But I try and live life in the right way, respecting other people. I wasn't brought up in a religious way, but I believe there's something out there that looks after you.

  David Beckham

  Life, Religious, Believe

  "David Beckham: 'Always have something to look forward to. If you don't have that you lose interest.'" by Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. May 16, 2013.

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• The final battles are the samskaras of good karma. They prevent Samadhi. Naturally for a religious person the avoidance is intensive. They are so hung up on good karma and on method.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Religious, Battle

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• The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'.

  Richard Dawkins

  Faith, Religious, Liberty

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I've never been a religious person. I've been a spiritual person since I was about 15, 16, when I was first introduced to Psilocybin [mushrooms]. That really opened me up to thinking about the universe in a different way, and coming to significant realizations about my connection to something greater than me.

  Macklemore

  Spiritual, Religious, Thinking

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• I'm a religious person. I honestly believe we will see each other in heaven someday.

  George Strait

  Religious, Believe, Heaven

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• I'm not a religious person. I don't have any desire. To me it's imitative of a conventional culture. I'm all for it for anybody. I totally have a free and open feeling about how other humans want to live their lives. It's just not something that has any real significance for me.

  Lily Tomlin

  Religious, Real, Feelings

  Interview with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. February 27, 2011.

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• Barack Obama is the President of the United States, a politician in America, a very religious country, so I understand why he has to pretend to be a religious person himself. I say pretend because, I can only hope that someone as bright as he, wouldn't really believe that people can walk on water and ride a winged horse and rain frogs and you can change water into wine.

  Bill Maher

  Country, Religious, Horse

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

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• I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even care, but something out there has got to control something. Because people can put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger and live and someone else can slip on the curb and die.

  Sonny Barger

  Religious, Gun, People

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

  Jermain Defoe

  Religious, Disappointment, Blessing

  "Prayer helped Defoe bounce back". Interview with "Football Focus", news.bbc.co.uk. December 22, 2006.

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