Religious Faith Quotes - Page 5

• A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp.....moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully.

  Wolfgang Smith

  Religious, Biblical, Numbers

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• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Ethical Principles, Views

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.22, Hachette UK

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• With the eventual acceptance of Darwin's theory we reach a modern understanding of nature, one which has since then changed in detail rather than in fundamentals. Only those who prefer religious faith to beliefs based on reasoning and evidence can still maintain that the human species is the special darling of the entire universe, or that other animals were created to provide us with food, or that we have divine authority over them, and divine permission to kill them.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Acceptance, Animal

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• The union of a man and a woman is the most enduring human institution, honored and encouraged in all cultures and by every religious faith." ... "Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.

  George W. Bush

  Religious, Gay, Men

  "Bush calls for ban on same-sex marriages". edition.cnn.com. February 25, 2004.

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• In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Gun, Abortion

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW -- A Statesman And a Man Of Faith / With a lifetime of public service to his credit, the former president reflects on the beliefs that have sustained him". Interview with Don Lattin, www.sfgate.com. January 12, 1997.

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• Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.

  Richard M. Weaver

  Religious, Wish, Decay

  Richard M. Weaver (1985). “The Ethics of Rhetoric”, p.216, Psychology Press

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• I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Years, Long

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• As long as we accept the principle that religious faith must be respected simply because it is religious faith, it is hard to withhold respect from the faith of Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers

  Richard Dawkins

  Suicide, Religious, Long

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.345, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

  E. B. White

  Faith, Religious, Democracy

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• In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America's heritage and future. From this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and every rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. In this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country's most powerful resource in peace and war.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Spiritual, Country, Religious

  "The peculiar history of the Pledge of Allegiance" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. December 23, 2013.

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• Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith.

  George Coyne

  Religious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There's one America that Barack Obama wants, and there's a very different America that I want. I want an America that is entrepreneurial, that has a strong private sector in which religious faith is respected and even nourished, in which there's vigorous debate across the spectrum, and in which our universities teach real history instead of propaganda. Certainly the decline of America is a choice, though the outcome is not foreordained. But liberty is also a choice, and I'm doing my best to persuade the people of America to make the latter choice.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Religious, Strong, Real

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• To speak of beauty is to enter another and more exalted realm-a realm sufficiently apart from our everyday concerns as to be mentioned only with a certain hesitation. People who are always in praise and pursuit of the beautiful are an embarrassment, like people who make a constant display of their religious faith. Somehow, we feel such things should be kept for our exalted moments, and not paraded in company, or allowed to spill out over dinner.

  Roger Scruton

  Beautiful, Religious, People

  Roger Scruton (2009). “Beauty: A Very Short Introduction”, p.14, OUP Oxford

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• The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union...should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength.

  John Quincy Adams

  Religious, Law, Giving

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• I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Religious, Catholic, Grew Up

  William F. Buckley, Jr. (2011). “Nearer, My God”, p.337, Image

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• Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith.

  Chris Matthews

  Christian, Spiritual, Religious

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Once Mel Gibson revealed himself to be, like the president, a person of serious religious faith, the gloves came off. Mel Gibson has done a major favor for serious faith, both Jewish and Christian, in America. He has made it "cool" to be religious, but in so doing he has unleashed the hatred of secular America against himself personally, against his work and against his family. God bless him.

  Daniel Lapin

  Christian, Religious, America

  "Why Jewish groups passionately hate Mel Gibson". www.wnd.com. April 10, 2004.

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• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, People, Add

  "His Holiness Discusses Compassion, Science, Religion And Sleep (VIDEO)". Intervew with Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 14, 2012.

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• Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Religious, Men, Despair

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• Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly.

  Michelangelo

  Spiritual, Religious, War

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• Thanks in large measure to the ACLU, the belief that there is a wall of separation between faith and state, not just church and state, is endemic. The exercise of religious faith in the public square is not prohibited; only the federal imposition of a particular faith. Hardly anyone any longer knows the difference.

  F. LaGard Smith

  Christian, Religious, Wall

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• I believe that a religious conversion is the only way to stimulate the peoples of the industrialized nations to be willing to make sacrifices for the sake of esho funi (the oneness of self and environment). ... I wish the entire world would accept as an item of religious faith the concept of esho funi and its moral obligations.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Religious, Believe, Sacrifice

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• Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Believe, Community

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

  Alan Keyes

  Religious, Justice, Foundation

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• When I am engaging with people of other religious faiths, I find myself unable to commit to their conclusions or agree with their assessments. Yet at the same time I come away encouraged by spiritual truths found in their traditions, thrilled by new insights into my own faith, and more passionate than ever about being a disciple of Christ.

  Leonard Sweet

  Spiritual, Religious, Assessment

  Leonard Sweet (2010). “Nudge: Awakening Each Other to the God Who's Already There”, p.28, David C Cook

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