Quotes About Religionists

#1. Religionists are clinging to little, positive, verbal, formal versions of the moral law ... while the laws of the Law, the great circling truths whose only adequate symbol is the material laws, the astronomy etc. are all unobserved, and sneered at when spoken of.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. When you have a book as material as it is, it's a lot easier to create a character because you have so many resources to draw upon when acting.

Asa Butterfield

#3. ... Miss Marjoribanks was of the numerous class of religionists who keep up civilities with heaven, and pay all the proper attentions, and show their respect for the divine government in a manner befitting persons who know the value of their own approbation.

Mrs. Oliphant

#4. If you want to make a song more hummy, add a few tiddely poms.

A.A. Milne

#5. We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.

Vance Havner

#6. This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves.

Bill Maher

#7. What I want and I wanted to be unforgettable.

Ntozake Shange

#8. In all places, and in all times, those religionists who have believed too much have been more inclined to violence and persecution than those who have believed too little.

Charles Caleb Colton

#9. Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)

Aleksandr Voinov

#10. Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

Jerry Coleman

#11. There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#12. Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect
wishes to arrange - intuition wishes to accept.

Georgia O'Keeffe

#13. Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

Sam Harris

#14. To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. As one Saudi professor sternly tells his co-religionists, Only the writings of a practising Muslim are worthy of our attention.

Tom Holland

#16. Urging the need for community upon American religionists is a vain enterprise; the experiential encounter with Jesus or God is too overwhelming for memories of community to abide, and the believer returns from the abyss of ecstasy with the self enhanced and otherness devalued.

Harold Bloom

#17. American Religionists, when I questioned them, frequently said that falling in love was affirming again Christ's love for each of them.

Harold Bloom

#18. The profoundly cynical premise of all religionists is that people are not capable of behaving decently toward one another unless they are lured with promises of pie in the sky and simultaneously terrorized by the threats of extreme nastiness in the eternal afterlife in hell.

Barbara G. Walker