Religious Quotes - Page 38

• Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

  St. Jerome

  Vices, Done, Superstitions

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• I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Belief, Problem

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• Modern marriage is first and foremost a romantic and private union, but the tax laws and inheritance laws and religious implications that still surround this institution indicate that marriage has evolved without casting away its earlier purposes or assumptions. It's like we just keep building on this thing, piling new advancements on the old model.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Law, Advancement, Purpose

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• Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

  Robert Winston

  Real, People, Needs

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Believe, Teaching

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, People, Interesting

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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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, Horse, Rain

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

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• I was brought up Catholic and we show my mom, my mother, my sister and then I take pains to explain on camera, that there were years after that where I wasn't really religious. I certainly wasn't a Catholic anymore, but I still lived with some mythical man in my head. I didn't really put a name to a face, but I just knew that if I was in trouble or scared I would go, 'Oh God, please help me get out of this one.'

  Bill Maher

  Mom, Mother, Pain

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

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• I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Buddhist, Thinking

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• In marriage for example, you say 'Yes' on the day you get married, 'I do', but each day you implicitly if not explicitly, also say 'Yes', by every act that one performs in a marriage, one is saying 'Yes', making a cup of coffee for one's wife or husband is a form of saying 'Yes' to the marriage vow that one is continuing the marriage by affirming it in one's deeds. And exactly the same in the religious life.

  Kevin Hart

  Husband, Coffee, Wife

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.

  Kevin Hart

  Writing, Thinking, Lyric Poetry

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• I think poetry has started to take on a supplementary role of prayer for some people. The churches, I think, including my own, are terrible at teaching people how to pray. It may be that we need to learn from the ground up as religious people, whether Christian or not, how to pray.

  Kevin Hart

  Christian, Prayer, Teaching

  "The Poetry and Prayers of Kevin Hart". "Encounter" with Carmel Howard, www.abc.net.au. June 5, 2011.

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• There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

  John Boorman

  Art, Book, Body

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. January 20, 1999.

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• I'm one of those religious people who are afraid of everything. I'm instantly worried about everything that could go wrong.

  Anne Lamott

  People, Worried

  "Anne Lamott's directions for grandparents: 'Some Assembly Required'". Interview with Katia Hetter, www.cnn.com. April 6, 2012.

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• I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

  Rick Springfield

  House, Guy, Iconography

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I don't perceive an anti-religious agenda, especially with regard to Christians and Christianity. The issue being debated was creationism, the idea that the Earth is 6,000 years old. As I understand it, this involves the Bible's Old Testament exclusively.

  Bill Nye

  Christian, Years, Ideas

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

  Bill Nye

  Strong, Mutual Support, People

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 04, 2015.

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• There is a religious principle: Love thy neighbour as thyself. But it's also an economic asset. If you've got a neighbour, you've got help, and this implies another limit. If you want to have neighbours, you can't have a limitless growth economy. You have to prefer to have a neighbour rather than to own your neighbour farm.

  Wendell Berry

  Growth, Want, Limits

  "Nature as an Ally: An Interview with Wendell Berry". Interview with Sarah Leonard, ourworld.unu.edu. July 5, 2012.

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• Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Teaching, Men, Years

  "Confession". Book by Leo Tolstoy. Part 1, Chapter 1, 1882.

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• I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Political, Weakness, Turns

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• There is absolutely no difference between religion and politics at all in Jesus' time. In other words, every seemingly religious word that came out of Jesus' mouth had very clear and unmistakable political connotations to it.

  Reza Aslan

  Jesus, Differences, Political

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• It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

  Pope John Paul II

  Would Be, Moral, Conviction

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• I have always considered Christianity as the strong ground of republicanism. The spirit is opposed, not only to the splendor, but even to the very forms of monarchy, and many of its precepts have for their objects republican liberty and equality as well as simplicity, integrity, and economy in government. It is only necessary for republicanism to ally itself to the Christian religion to overturn all the corrupted political and religious institutions of the world.

  Benjamin Rush

  Christian, Strong, Integrity

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• Notable American Women gives us, with great panache and in eerie detail, a world that is cruelly reasonable within the near-religious limitations of its weird laws and customs. It is a book as unique as it is wonderfully strange.

  Gilbert Sorrentino

  Book, Unique, Law

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• I don't want to participate in traditional Indian religious ceremonies - dance in a sun dance or pray in a sweat lodge or go on a vision quest with the help of a medicine man. The power of these ceremonies has an appeal, but I'm content with what little religion I already have.

  Ian Frazier

  Men, Medicine, Sweat

  Ian Frazier (2000). “On the Rez”, p.4, Macmillan

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