Religious Leaders Quotes

• I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

  Michael Palin

  Religious, Thinking, Leader

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Spiritual

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p.52), 1990.

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Government

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Believe, Ignorance

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

  Jena Malone

  Friendship, Religious, Buddhist

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• And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Hate, Leader

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• The facts are plain: Religious leaders who preside over marriage ceremonies must and will be guided by what they believe. If they do not wish to celebrate marriages for same-sex couples, that is their right. The Supreme Court says so. And the Charter says so.

  Paul Martin

  Religious, Sex, Couple

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• Moreover, I want us to urge political and religious leaders, and all peoples of the world, to move forward in a conciliatory spirit, to deal with religious matters in a responsible and balanced way, and to focus on their common grounds.

  Alcee Hastings

  Religious, Moving, Political

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• From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Government, Leader

  "Will Faith-Based Programs Go Sour on Obama?" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2009.

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• Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

  Spiritual, Religious, Kindness

  "The Dalai Lama, A Policy of Kindness: An Anthology by and about the Dalai Lama" edited by Sidney Piburn, (p. 52), 1990.

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• Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

  Michael Palin

  Religious, Believe, Creating

  "Letter from London". Personal Website, palinstravels.co.uk. September 18, 2003.

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• A strong case can be made for religious leaders to speak out on political issues.

  Tony Campolo

  Religious, Strong, Speaks Out

  "Using the Church for Partisan Politics" by Tony Campolo, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 9, 2007.

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• Instead of more violence why isn't there a [meeting of religious leaders]. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'

  Elton John

  Religious, Hatred, Leader

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

  Hugh Nibley

  Leadership, Religious, Jesus

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• I'm not a follower of this or that religious leader. More wars are started because of religious leaders, and people are following and they don't know why... That is religiosity. That is what turns people into robots.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Religious, War, People

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• Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.

  Frederick Lenz

  Religious, Drama, Philosophy

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• Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

  James Redford

  Teacher, Religious, Home

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• The religious leader is the most untrustworthy of leaders; in no other station do we have so many opportunities for pride, covetousness and lust, and with so many excellent disguises to keep such ignobility from being found out and called to account.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Religious, Pride, Opportunity

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• America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists and religious leaders; but many of these have lost the founders concept and become secular institutions. Because of this attitude, secular education is stumbling and floundering.

  Billy Graham

  Religious, Attitude, Father

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• You've got a generation of young men - almost all are young men - in situations of great economic hardship, where they don't really have work. The chances of them making a decent life for themselves, of making a family, living in a kind of decent, happy way, are very, very remote. It's very hard for them to ever even have that as a dream, so when people are that deprived of the ordinary hope of human beings, it creates anger. And that anger can be channeled by unscrupulous persons, whether secular or religious leaders, and there's been a lot of that.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Religious, Men

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mother, Religious, Leader

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Atheist, Ignorance

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• Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious leaders were all dreamers.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Dream, Religious, Home

  "5 Rules for the New Year" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2013.

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• But it's more an up-versus-down issue because the research has shown that opinion leaders, whether they're elected officials, journalists, business leaders - it's academics, religious leaders - they have dramatically different views on immigration. A

  Mark Krikorian

  Religious, Views, Opinion Leaders

  "A Closer Look At Obama Administration's Controversial Deportation Plans". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 26, 2015.

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• We have everywhere an absence of memory. Architects sometimes talk of building with context and continuity in mind, religious leaders call it tradition, social workers say it's a sense of community, but it is memory we have banished from our cities. We have speed and power, but no place. Travel, but no destination. Convenience, but no ease.

  Howard Mansfield

  Religious, Memories, Cities

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