Religious Quotes

I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.

Muslim leaders should ask themselves what exactly their relationship is to a political movement that encourages young men to kill and main on religious grounds.

I’m not a religious person. I have a one-on-one relationship with God, but I don’t go to church like I should.

My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.

Religious freedom is often referred to as America’s first freedom. Our country was founded by religious exiles and built on the belief that God has given all people certain inalienable rights.

I believe in God; I’m not saying I’m highly religious.

Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.

They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last.

Fanaticism in religion is the alliance of the passions she condemns with the dogmas she professes.

Each voice carries a portion of value, no matter how unpalatable or distasteful that voice may be: no one person, government, ideology, transnational, or religious institution can own and dominate the whole.