Quotes About Keeping Religion To Yourself

#1. Peruse all the sermons of Jesus and you will be sure to find parables, and sometimes allegory. What you will always find, however, is something of keeping our hearts in order.

Jerome Strong

#2. To fully experience this life as a human being, we all need to connect with our desire to realize something larger than our individual selves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#3. Like all religious people, Christians repress, remember, and retell their core stories selectively. They emphasize this episode at the expense of that episode, in keeping with their own biases and the preoccupations of their times.

Stephen R. Prothero

#4. Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#5. This is why I am not religious. If and when we do learn the true secret of the universe, some kind of religion will be there to hide it. To cover it up. To persecute and shred, to burn and destroy. They stay in business by keeping us in the Dark Ages.

John Dunning

#6. This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being.

Thomas Mann

#7. Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

Gene Tunney

#8. If Margaret Thatcher had been Prime Minister at the time, there would have been no Treaty of Maastricht.

Douglas Hurd

#9. Keeping Christ in Christmas is like showing up at someone's house every year, insisting on a party they never planned and never agreed to.

Rebecca McKinsey

#10. Science always goes abreast with the just elevation of the man, keeping step with religion and metaphysics; or, the state of science is an index of our self-knowledge.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. It's not like the Middle Ages, when you had the Church and the aristocracy keeping everything nice and stagnant.

Kevin Hearne

#12. When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence.

John Lewis

#13. Since 1787 the principle of freedom of religion has been attacked but never overthrown. Keeping education in the United States free of sectarian influence has long been one of the primary struggles of believers in freedom of religion.

Joseph Leon Blau

#14. How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#15. Keeping religion immune from criticism is both unwarranted and dangerous.

Lawrence M. Krauss

#16. In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#17. Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

Octavia Butler

#18. Spirituality is keeping the spirit up against all odds and obstacles of life.

Amit Ray

#19. As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#20. I mean, that's another big surprise of the show, is that I see sixteen year old people who recognize me and they're honest, for-real fans of the show. And it goes down to nine months. I mean, I've heard of nine month to year-old children who are watching the show.

Steve Burns

#21. What's fun about comedy is you're pushing things a little further than you would in a drama; you're pushing reality a little bit more.

Jason Katims

#22. Shaq is rich. The white man who signs his check ... is wealthy. "Ah, here you go, Shaq. Go buy yourself a bouncing car. Bling, bling!"

Chris Rock

#23. Love is the greatest gift to life.

Debasish Mridha

#24. To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

William Penn

#25. Making a wrong choice in the leadership would be the end of mankind when run by the immature contestants, but from the divine's glory it is to verify if the mankind is really serious of keeping the planet earth by apprising and enhancing the consciousness.

Vishal Chipkar

#26. Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Napoleon Bonaparte