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Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.
There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.
The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?
Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.
Cleanse your mind from anger, remembrance of evil, and shameful thoughts, and then you will find out how Christ dwells in you.
Who delivered up Jesus to die? Not Judas, for money; not Pilate, for fear; not the Jews, for envy; - but the father, for love!
America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity - the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology
I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.
I've never been married and I've no more desire to be married now than I ever have. I hate bureaucracy and I am not religious.
All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.
This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.
While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.
There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.
When does life begin? When does the soul enter? That's a religious question. Science is not going to be able to help with that.
Half the Christian churches of New York are trying to ruin the free public schools in order to replace them by religious dogma.
There is no instinct that has been so maligned, suppressed, abused, and distorted by religious teaching as the instinct of sex.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.
Secular societies establish tolerance by being equally non-accommodating toward all religious demands within the public sphere.
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.
God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm. I love that.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: if the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.
The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.
While the sun God will may your day, sing as a song in search of a voice that is silent, and the one God will make for your way.
One of my good friends is Christian, goes to church every Sunday, very religious. I'm fine with that and I will never judge her.
If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!
Your accumulated offences do not surpass the multitude of God's mercies: your wounds do not surpass the great Physician's skill.
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Beelzebub is the isolated part of the human being. This part or this real human being has been obscured by religious structures.
We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
I'm trying to champion the naturalist's worldview and show it's not as heathen as most religious people would make it out to be.
I don't think human affection and compassion are just religious concerns; they're indispensable factors in our day-to-day lives.
Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.
A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.
We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we think we could not love without it.
But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.
You think when Jesus comes back, he really wants to see a cross? That's like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on.
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.
I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit.