Religious Quotes - Page 39

• If I had a religious belief, I would want it to be as strong as my belief in the theater.

  Marian Seldes

  Strong, Want, Belief

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• Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

  John of Damascus

  Blessed, Mean, Giving

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• Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

  Anne Hull

  Class, Tulsa, World

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• We were a religious, practicing, Catholic family - Mass together on Sunday, Catholic schools, and parents who practiced everything they preached. A great gift was their total absence of any derogatory talk about people of any race or culture and we were on a street of many faiths, though no other races at that early time.

  Trina

  School, Sunday, Race

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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 comes a moment during which almost every girl or boy falls into melancholy; they are tormented by a vague inquietude which rests on everything and finds nothing to calm it. They seek solitude; they weep; the silence to be found in cloister attracts them: the image of peace that seems to reign in religious houses seduces them. They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

  Denis Diderot

  Girl, Fashion, Mistake

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• My only enemy is right-wing religious fundamentalism.

  William J. Clinton

  Wings, Enemy, Right Wing

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• I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.

  Martin Rees

  Wish, Insult

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• I have no religious belief myself, but I don't think we should fight about it. In particular, I think that we should not rubbish moderate religious leaders like the Archbishop of Canterbury because I think we all agree that extreme fundamentalism is a threat, and we need all the allies we can muster against it.

  Martin Rees

  Fighting, Thinking, Leader

  Biography/ Personal Quotes, m.imdb.com.

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• Good religious poetry... is likely to be most justly appreciated and most discriminately relished by the undevout.

  A. E. Housman

  Appreciated, Poetry Is

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• Employers should not be able to impose their religious beliefs on female employees, ignoring their individual health decisions and denying their right to reproductive care. Bosses belong in the boardroom, not in the bedroom.

  Dina Titus

  Decision, Boss, Female

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• When Jews left Judaism, they didn't stop being religious. They simply swapped God-based Judaism for godless secular humanism and leftism. For left-wing Jews, Judaism is their ethnicity; leftism is their religion.

  Dennis Prager

  Ethnicity, Wings, Judaism

  "Dennis Prager: Americanism Is The Best Hope". Interview with Dave Gordon, www.breitbart.com. June 3, 2012.

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• The Left has always been anti-religious, and especially anti-Christian.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Left, Anti Religious

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• If we weren't born with anti-social passions - narcissism, envy, lust, meanness, greed, hunger for power, just to name the more obvious - why the need for so many laws, whether religious or secular, that govern behavior?

  Dennis Prager

  Passion, Law, Names

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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