Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

Worship is a posture of life that takes as its primary purpose the understanding of what it really means to love and revere God.

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

You claim that any promise which gives you the power, and guarantees you the love of God must be the false promise of the devil.

Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.

I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him.

You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

What I want to do is protect the religious liberties of those who believe that opposing same-sex marriage is part of their faith.

Art rests on a kind of religious sense, on a deep, steadfast earnestness; and on this account it unites so readily with religion.

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

Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.

I was referencing the Bible: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" But I'm not religious. I just thought it was a good title.

The Jews are returning to their land of unbelief. They are spiritually blind and desperately in need of their Messiah and Savior.

Let's keep people with weird religious faiths out of government. Especially those who have a weird religious faith IN government.

The Egyptian tomb was the outcome of the Mesopotamian influence and followed from the religious crisis the country had undergone.

Our esteem for facts has not neutralized in us all religiousness. It is itself almost religious. Our scientific temper is devout.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

On the path of truth, all religions are but one, race and color are irrelevant, and there is no difference between men and women.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.

The way liberals are interpreting the First Amendment today is that it prevents anyone who is religious from being in government.

Something I've noticed. Church planters don't pray for revival. They pray for opportunity, favor with the unchurched and leaders.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?

This Nation was established by men who believed in God. ... You will see the evidence of this deep religious faith on every hand.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

We may well lie with what seems to be a woman of flesh and blood, and yet all the time it is only a devil in the shape of a woman.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Love is a consistent passion to give, not a meek persistent hope to receive. The only demand of life is the privilege to love all.

No person can be punished for entertaining or professing religious beliefs or disbeliefs, for church attendance or non-attendance.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.

Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

There is in fact a controversy over Darwin's theory. Clearly both theories have religious implications. But this is not about God.

I grew up Catholic. I'm not religious now but I would say that I'm a very spiritual person and you're always in search of answers.

Because of our sacred regard for each human intellect, we consider the obtaining of an education to be a religious responsibility.

The court's recent understanding of religion as a private matter for individuals has plainly become malnourished and impoverished.

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