History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

I've always loved yoga because you get to connect to a deep religious truth while stretching your legs.

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

You can't pray away global warming, and that's the difference between religious people and sane people.

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Strive to make every person feel special. After all, every person you meet is made in the image of God.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

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

The followers of Jesus did not die for what they believed - they died for what they claim to have seen.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Man must now assume the responsibility for his world. He can no longer shove it off on religious power.

God sometimes answers our prayers by giving us what we would have asked for had we known what He knows.

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

To fail to pray, then, is not to merely break some religious rule- it is a failure to treat God as God.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

Either god should have written a book to fit my brain, or he should have made my brain to fit his book.

The more we love, the more love we have to offer. So it is with God's love for us. It is inexhaustible.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

I will never allow anyone to divide this people once more into religious camps, each fighting the other

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

I don't believe you should interfere with any classic for reasons of religious or political correctness.

For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque.

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

Their opposition to Christianity is not intellectual. They simply do not want Christ to reign over them!

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

Sometimes I envy religious people for the comfort of believing. It would make everything so much easier.

He knows that as long as a man keeps his faith in God and in himself nothing can permanently defeat him.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

There is an attitude in the media that is dishonestly reinforcing negative stereotypes about Christians.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

One thing evangelicals want is a reprieve from intolerance against their beliefs, values, and practices.

If anyone does not wish to have Mary Immaculate for his Mother, he will not have Christ for his Brother.

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Of course I am not religious — I don't in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so.

If Jesus Christ isn't the central figure in our lives and in our churches, we're only fooling ourselves.

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

Religious and racial persecution is moronic at all times, perhaps the most idiotic of human stupidities.

I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.

Those who wish to cause religious conflict are small in number but often manage to dominate the headline.

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