Religious Quotes - Page 37

• I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a hangnail and deserves no more respect than an appendix.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Believe, Moral, Embryos

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• [T]he Rev. R. Taylor, A.M., the Deist, now in gaol, infamously persecuted by the Whigs for his religious opinions, in his learned defense of Deism called the Diegesis, has clearly proved all the heirarchical institutions of the Christians to be a close copy of those of the Essenians of Egypt.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Christian, Egypt, Defense

  "Anacalypsis". Book by Godfrey Higgins, p. 787, 1833.

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• Under the rubric of religious freedom, we respect the right to worship differently much more than the right to worship not at all.

  Wendy Kaminer

  Religion, Atheism, Rubrics

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• [On women as priests:] It has always seemed very odd to me that this particular sphere of activity should remain a male closed shop, seeing that, to judge from church attendance, women are the more religious sex - while our criminal statistics make quite clear that they are the least wicked.

  Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

  Sex, Judging, Wicked

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• My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And shed come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.

  John Mellencamp

  Sunday, Grandmother, Boys

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• Our culture is almost entirely prepared to not just help you create your false self, but to get very identified with it and attached to it. So, without some form of God experience, which teaches you who you are apart from that - we would say in the religious world, who you are "in" God, in the mind and heart of God - there's almost no way to get out of it.

  Richard Rohr

  Heart, Self, Mind

  Source: ryanthomasneace.com

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• Our plan will not favor religious institutions over nonreligious institutions. As president, I'm interested in what is constitutional and I'm interested in what works.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, President

  "Bush Speaks at Annual National Prayer Breakfast". www.cnn.com. February 1, 2001.

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• We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Groups

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• The ACLU's got to take a lot of blame for this.

  Jerry Falwell

  Humor, Blame, Positive Atheism

  American Atheists News #958, September 14, 2001.

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• I put all the blame legally and morally on the actions of the terrorist, but America's secular and anti-Christian environment left us open to our Lord's decision not to protect. When a nation deserts God and expels God from the culture ... the result is not good.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Humor, America

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Humor, Dark

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• You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Humor, Clothes

  "Nuclear War and the Second Coming of Christ". Book by Jerry Fatwell, 1983.

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• A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.

  Martin Luther

  Wise, Humor, Numbers

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• The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible,without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

  Jerry Falwell

  Humor, Errors, Practice

  Jerry Falwell (1982). “Finding inner peace and strength”, Doubleday Books

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• The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.

  Martin Luther

  Taken, Humor, Doctors

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.328

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• I almost feel like throwing Jimmy into the stove, as the priest in Kulenberg did.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Stoves, Priests

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• In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

  Martin Luther

  Country, Humor, Numbers

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• There is no separation of church and state. Modern US Supreme Courts have raped the Constitution and raped the Christian faith and raped the churches by misinterpreting what the Founders had in mind in the First Amendment to the Constitution.

  Jerry Falwell

  Christian, Humor, Mind

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• The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Real, Humor

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• The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.

  John of Damascus

  Mother, Race, Joy

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• There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

  Martin Luther

  Dream, Humor, Rude

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• Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Air, Two

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.326

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• We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

  Martin Luther

  Lying, Humor, Blood

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• We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Air, Devil

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

  St. Jerome

  Giving, Novelty, Birth

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