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Religion is like going out to dinner with friends. Everyone may order something different, but everyone can still sit at the same table.
Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
I celebrate everyone's religious holidays. if it's good enough for the righteous, it's good enough for the self-righteous, I always say.
Don't try to understand it. You won't succeed. Don't try to see it. You can't. Try to live it, and you will be living out of the center.
We feel the need to emphasize with greater clarity the obligation for members of the Church to become more independent and self reliant.
It's just better to promote love and fairness and equality than it is to promote something you think is based on your religious beliefs.
If religious instruction were not allowed until the child had attained the age of reason, we would be living in a quite different world.
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don't need to have hierarchy so much.
If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
I do not believe that to be religious in the best, authentic sense a man has to destroy his love life and mummify himself, body and soul.
The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.
Inside the Bible's pages lie the answers to all the problems that mankind has ever known. I hope Americans will read and study the Bible.
In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it.
The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.
I have never pretended to be any kind of super-religious kind of man, but I feel very strongly that you can be funny without being dirty.
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show.
Music religious heat inspires, It wakes the soul, and lifts it high, And wings it with sublime desires, And fits it to bespeak the Deity.
But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.
Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God
We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet.
There's not a single fear, thought, feeling or need that's too big or too small for Jesus. He wants you to tell Him what's on your heart.
Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.
I'm not religious, but I put it that way because I feel so strongly. It's the one thing you do not ever do. You've got to have standards.
I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness of Christians.
Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.
I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty.
Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.
The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.
I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us.
You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.
When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.
We are sometimes tempted to believe the lie that God does not love us. Thankfully the Bible is filled with evidence that this is not true.
The Marine Corps taught me commitment, courage, focus, and a value system that can easily suffice for people like me who aren't religious.
Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.
It may be that today gold has become the exclusive ruler of life, but the time will come when man will again bow down before a higher god.
Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves.
When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known throughout the world.
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us.
Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.
The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.