Religious Quotes

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Dalai Lama

Love, Daily, Important

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.
Albert Einstein

Religion, Deeply, Somewhat

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Adams

Government, Moral, Inadequate

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham Lincoln

Art, Greatest, Person

World belongs to humanity, not this leader, that leader or that king or prince or religious leader. World belongs to humanity.
Dalai Lama

Humanity, Leader, King

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche

After, Coming, Hands

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Reason

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

Others, Word, Act

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
Thomas Jefferson

Silence, Notice, Disputes

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I'm telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!
Dalai Lama

Political, Tell, While

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
Mahatma Gandhi

Reason, Morality, Conflict

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Faith, Education, History

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi

Faith, Religion, Death

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
Mahatma Gandhi

God, Mind, Passion

Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.
Samuel Adams

Liberty, Free, Earth

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mahatma Gandhi

Society, Mind, Political

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.
John F. Kennedy

Hope, Away, Vote

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.
Oprah Winfrey

Spiritual, Deep, Feeling

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George Washington

Religion, Good, Great

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
Jay Leno

Men, Wise, Find

Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
Deepak Chopra

Love, Beauty, Leadership

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
Rita Rudner

Weird, Wonder, Dogs

Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. And whether the cause is justice for the persecuted, compassion for the needy and the sick, or mercy for the child waiting to be born, there is no greater force for good in the nation than Christian conscience in action.
Mitt Romney

Good, Freedom, Waiting

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
Blaise Pascal

Men, Evil, Conviction

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
Bob Dylan

Music, Truth, Philosophy

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Equality, Happy, Justice

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert Kennedy

Freedom, America, Inspired

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Victor Hugo

Great, Human, Book

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

Mind, Highest, Necessity

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

Political, Thinking, Word

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