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Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.
"The way of Cain" describes any religious system that attempts to earn God's favor by works and rituals rather than reliance on God's grace.
Name a moral statement or action, uttered or performed by a religious person that could not have been uttered or performed by an unbeliever.
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
Americans are going to see that as the more religious a Muslim is, the more likely they're going to end up somehow fighting for ISIS' cause.
If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.
When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American believed in Jesus.
And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.
Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.
My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.
Let us bind ourselves tightly to the Sorrowful Heart of our Heavenly Mother and reflect on it's boundless grief and how precious is our soul.
We urge all people to recognize that religious freedom requires not trying to use the power of government to force religious ideas on others.
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.
Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
The theory that religion is a force for peace, often heard among the religious right and its allies today, does not fit the facts of history.
Early American speeches, from Washington's to Patrick Henry's, have been detheologized in history textbooks. No one has called it censorship.
What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.
Almost all countries have natural dividing lines, and when ethnic and religious partition occurs in one country, it'll soon happen elsewhere.
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.
To have a pure heart, we must submit all thoughts to the authority of Christ. If we are willing to do that, he will change us to be like him.
In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.
There is no comfortable middle path where we get to provide a rational justification for our basic moral, religious and common sense beliefs.
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.
Oddly enough, I'm not religious but I'm also very fond of St Peter's in Rome. When I'm there, I always know there's a good meal not far away.
We have concluded that it is not [science], and moreover that ID cannot uncouple itself from its creationist, and thus religious, antecedents.
Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.
Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secularism than do all the arguments of atheists.
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.
When you follow God's will for your life, you can see how yesterday's events prepared you for today's challenges and tomorrow's opportunities.
I don't like to say that my kitchen is a religious place, but I would say that if I were a voodoo priestess, I would conduct my rituals there.
If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout.
The deeper question... is not whether ancient religious forms can reform... but whether new forms of nature-related spirituality might emerge.
The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the reality of angels.
To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.
While even pornography is protected as free speech, the courts have consciously undermined religious speech and freedom of religion for years.