Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Religious freedom is foundational for our country, and we must lead on religious freedom as an example in America.

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

Very often some of the religious miracle plays you see on television can be very corny, I find. And so simplistic.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

God exists outside of time, and since we are within time, there is no way we will ever totally grasp that concept.

As long as we think we own anything, that thing owns us. As soon as we know that we own nothing, then God owns us.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Won't you look down upon me Jesus, you've got to help me make a stand. You just got to see me through another day.

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

America is a nation that is founded on the principle of religious freedom. That is the reason this country exists.

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

The Christian religion teaches us to imitate a God that is cruel, insidious, jealous, and implacable in his wrath.

When we share Christ, the Truth behind our transformation, we are offering people an opportunity to be transformed.

In the God of all creation, we put our faith and trust. And give our lives to you, cause you gave your life for us.

To the ACLU, the First Amendment speaks more directly to freedom from religion than it does to freedom of religion.

Every once in a while I have this thought, we've got to piss off the religious people. How are we going to do that?

Not surprisingly, the place we're most likely to experience testing is exactly where we struggle most to trust God.

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Our government makes no sense unless it is founded on a deeply held religious belief - and I don't care what it is.

Jesus isn't a God who stayed on the mountaintop - he's a Savior who came down and lived and worked with the people.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Terrible or not, difficult or not, the only thing that is beautiful, noble, religious, and mystical is to be happy.

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

The First Amendment was not intended to withdraw the Christian religion as a whole from the protection of Congress.

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

We used to moralize; today we normalize, and performance anxiety is the secular version of our old religious guilt.

Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.

Despite much talk in this land about religious freedom, churches and their schools now confront grave difficulties.

Madonna was so flamboyant in terms of her look, her style, her public pronouncements, her religious taboo-smashing.

Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

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