Religion quotes

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

My religion lies in my composition.

I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.

Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

I don't care what the religion is called as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind.

I do engineering, not religion.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Well, religion has been passed down through the years by stories people tell around the campfire. Stories about God, stories about love. Stories about good spirits and evil spirits.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

I think the real problem for American religion are those minority of fundamentalists who try to identify political policies with religion.

I subscribe to no religion. But I believe that in the creation of art, there can be moments of God.

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

The American Indian was an individualist in religion as in war. He had neither a national army nor an organized church.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.