Quotes About Religiosity

#1. The good news is that a vast majority of Indians from different religions see no contradiction between religiosity and liberalism, keep India stable. We religious liberals don't talk loudly enough.

Amish Tripathi

#2. Emptiness is that which frees us from religiosity and leads us to true spirituality.

Brother Lawrence

#3. The more risk averse a person is, the higher his or her religiosity [ ... ]. In other words, risk-averse people don't want to take a chance on getting on the wrong side of god.

Darrel Ray

#4. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Albert Einstein

#5. Even to this day, grace remains hard to swallow. Religiosity and moralism go down easier than free forgiveness.

Robert Farrar Capon

#6. My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.

Albert Einstein

#7. What is remarkable is the polar opposition between the religiosity of the American public at large and the atheism of the intellectual elite.54

Richard Dawkins

#8. 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

#9. We have been deceived that religiosity is equal to personal relationship with God.

Sunday Adelaja

#10. A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.

Robin Bertram

#11. It turns out that the left temporal lobe, if there's a lesion there, will create hyper-religiosity. People become super-religious. They see demons and spirits everywhere. We think Joan of Arc may have had it.

Michio Kaku

#12. In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.

June Jordan

#13. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!

Timothy Leary

#14. The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of religiosity we normally associate with it ... It is for everyone, irrespective of race, religion or any political affiliation.

Dalai Lama

#15. It could be ventured to understand obsessive compulsive neurosis as the pathological counterpart of religious development, to define neurosis as an individual religiosity; to define religion as a universal obsessive compulsive neurosis.

Sigmund Freud

#16. Those who hope to nurture genuine religiosity should first establish liberty.

Mustafa Akyol

#17. Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

Yann Martel

#18. For me, religiosity is ... the constant remembrance of the presence of the soul.

Gabriela Mistral

#19. The Romans saw loss of virtue all around them. The Victorians decried the decline in religiosity in the next generation.

Fareed Zakaria

#20. Religiosity developed because successful religions made groups more efficient at turning resources into offspring. (including art, cathedrals, cities, earthworks, etc?)

Jonathan Haidt

#21. I hope I get the bliss. And I know I'm going to have to work for it. But I've got to say, really, I have no kind of, can I say "secular religiosity"? ... I don't have a denominational sight.

Keanu Reeves

#22. But I'd be in big trouble if Karma was going to finally be my judge. I'd be in deep shit. It doesn't excuse my mistakes, but I'm holding out for Grace. I'm holding out that Jesus took my sins onto the Cross, because I know who I am, and I hope I don't have to depend on my own religiosity.

Michka Assayas

#23. In general, religious people seem to be happier than non-religious people - under various definitions of "religiosity," such as church attendance or professed spiritual beliefs.

Gretchen Rubin

#24. He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.

Karl Marx

#25. Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

Samuel P. Huntington

#26. The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Criss Jami

#27. It is the inevitable effect of religion on public policy that makes it a matter of public concern. Advocates of religiosity extol the virtues or moral habits that religion is supposed to instill in us. But we should be equally concerned with the intellectual habits it discourages.

Wendy Kaminer

#28. Despite the solace of hypocritical religiosity and its seductive promise of an after-life of heavenly bliss, most of us will do anything to thwart the inevitable victory of biological death.

Jack Kevorkian

#29. I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.

Adrian Rogers

#30. We know broadly from research is that religiosity does not correlate with sympathy for terrorism. It's actually quite the opposite. The more religious someone is, the more often they go to the mosque, the more likely they are to actually reject attacks on civilians.

Chuck Todd

#31. The disturbed individual who believes himself to be Christ, or to receive messages from God, is something of a cliche in our society. Ever since Sigmund Freud, many people have associated religiosity with neurosis and mental illness.

Robert Winston

#32. Religiosity turns out to be the best indicator of civic involvement: it's more accurate than education, age, income, gender or race.

Jonathan Sacks

#33. I tend to place my own value in spirituality rather than religiosity.

Kitty Kelley

#34. First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

Agnivesh

#35. Religiosity has deprived us of our intimacy with God.

Sunday Adelaja

#36. Would you please be open to the possibility that the gospel, real Christianity, is something very different from religion? That gives many people hope that there is a way to know God that doesn't lead to the pathologies of moralism and religiosity.

Timothy Keller

#37. It is hard for many people today to make the distinction between religion and religiosity, the latter a dangerous parody of the former.

Abigail McCarthy

#38. The bogus religiosity which now surrounds original works of art, and which is ultimately dependent upon their market value, has become the substitute for what paintings lost when the camera made them reproducible.

John Berger

#39. The Bible differentiates clearly between true faith and mere religiosity.

Billy Graham

#40. It is God who does miracles, not your works, religiosity.

Sunday Adelaja

#41. Suffering often changes our ambitions. Before his conversion, Saul cared primarily about his reputation and perfecting his religiosity. The transformed Paul left reputation behind and instead boasted in weakness, longing to suffer and share in Christ's death

Anonymous

#42. In view of the tide of religiosity engulfing a once secular republic it is refreshing to be reminded by Freethinkers that free thought and skepticism are robustly in the American tradition. After all the Founding Fathers began by omitting God from the American Constitution.

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

#43. Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.

Novalis

#44. Excessive religiosity is killing so many religious people knowingly or unknowingly

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#45. The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

#46. How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own experience - free from the clouds of religiosity that often surround them Yet it's difficult to distinguish the tools themselves from their cultural packaging.

Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

#47. Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Bob Dylan

#48. Four American traits were central to the evolution of that culture: industriousness, egalitarianism, religiosity, and an amalgam of philanthropy and volunteerism that was uniquely American.

Charles Murray

#49. Replace your religiosity with the virtues of personal work with God

Sunday Adelaja

#50. Some have deplored Lincoln's indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.

Gore Vidal

#51. I grew up Catholic, so I have these defenses about listening to anything with too much religiosity; some of the lyrics didn't sit well in my mouth. One of my beefs is the patriarchal setup. Having the 'he, he, he, God, God, God, king, king, king' stuff was hard for me.

Patty Griffin

#52. Religiosity that is hostile to sex is the product of authoritarian society.

Wilhelm Reich

#53. She was artificially narrowing herself, amputating every humane and tender piece that didn't fit into a rigid frame.

David Brooks