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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.
The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.
The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"
I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same place.
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.
Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
I think that the proclamation of the Gospel is sometimes nearer to an atheistic point of view than to traditional religious attitudes.
People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the midst of people who hate.
America has become politically and culturally agnostic, and the Christian faith in the minds of many has come to represent intolerance.
I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.
May the Mother of Jesus and our Mother, always smile on your spirit, obtaining for it, from her Most Holy Son, every heavenly blessing.
Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.
I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.
God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.
As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.
I grew up Catholic and still feel a lot of Catholic guilt. But my wife is not religious so we're not raising our daughters religiously.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
The truly enlightened are not necessarily very religious. Religon is a convienent description to take care of our fears, to passify us.
There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.
A law which attempts to say you can criticise and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed.
As a Christian, there is no other part of the New Right ideology that concerns me more than its self-serving misuse of religious faith.
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?
If the polls are right, our Judeo-Christian heritage is no longer the foundation of our values. We have become a post-Christian society.
If God is sovereign, then it is impossible for civil government to be neutral on issues of law. All law is based in some religious code.
The tedious and convoluted reasoning behind the Supreme Court's ongoing project to expunge all references to God from the public domain.
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
It seems that the right of freedom of speech that was enshrined in numerous constitutions is now under attack by religious institutions.
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths
Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.
...the unprecedented rise of the Christian Social Party... was to assume the deepest significance for me as a classical object of study.
To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?
A really religious person has no theology. Yes, he has the experience, he has the truth, he has that luminosity, but he has no theology.
The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.
In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.