Religious Convictions Quotes

#1. I don't think that my particular religious convictions should be held against me in this campaign any more than the Prime Minister's lack of convictions should be held against her.

Tony Abbott

#2. Unfortunately, we cannot live our lives according to the moral and religious convictions or petrified dogmas of our forebears. We have an obligation to live by our own faith, forever renewing the traditions of the past and adapting them to the demands of own time and place.

Farquhar McHarg

#3. No one nowadays talks about the absolute, not even people with firm and deep religious convictions. The whole Hegelian project has no resonance for us, as it once had for the Germans in the 1820s and the British and Americans around the 1880s.

Frederick C. Beiser

#4. Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

Stockwell Day

#5. I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

Tony Abbott

#6. The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.

Dahlia Lithwick

#7. The arbitrary division between church and state ... is used, as an easily identifiable rallying point, to subdue the opinions of that vast body of citizens who represent those with religious convictions.

Francis Schaeffer

#8. We should resist the temptation to identify our religious convictions with the platform of a party or the platitudes of favored politicians.

Ralph E. Reed Jr.

#9. Personal religious convictions have no place in political campaigns or in dictating public policy.

Geraldine Ferraro

#10. Hitler spoke at length about the impact of his own personal Catholic faith on his political activism, noting that it was his religious convictions in particular that compelled him to be a ruthless anti-Semite.

Derek Hastings

#11. The strength of a country is the strength of its religious convictions.

Calvin Coolidge

#12. Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions.

Blaise Pascal

#13. I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

Frank Murphy

#14. The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.

Sam Keen

#15. I'm definitely a victim of some weird twisted form of not really relating to female musicians.

Weyes Blood

#16. What did I care what some guy in brown shorts thought? Even if he wore the uniform very well. Damn, where did they go to hire these guys? The gym?

Kim Harrison

#17. It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

Pope John Paul II

#18. I need your lips to kiss me
I need your arms to hold me
I need your words to comfort me

Alysha Speer

#19. I had an amazing experience in Cuba. People there are fantastic. But I do have to say it's very nice to be back home in front of all of you capitalist pigs.

Conan O'Brien

#20. You think everything revolves around Zane Hollander, don't you?"
"No. But I think your blush does.

Robin Bielman

#21. The practice of architecture is the most delightful of all pursuits. Also, next to agriculture, it is the most necessary to man. One must eat, one must have shelter. Next to religious worship itself, it is the spiritual handmaiden of our deepest convictions.

Philip Johnson

#22. The First Amendment isn't about free thought and free opinion and free belief. The First Amendment is about free exercise
the carrying into practice of religious principles, and beliefs, and convictions.

Alan Keyes

#23. To forgive is merely to remember only the loving thoughts you gave in the past, and those that were given you. All the rest must be forgotten.

Marianne Williamson

#24. At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

Brett Hoebel

#25. I'm really boring. I get up early. I go to bed early. I don't smoke or drink. I mean, I'll eat a cupcake. I'm just not a crazy, stay-out-all-night sort of person. I love writing.

Karin Slaughter

#26. Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bible.
I don't know how some people are able to
disassociate their own cruelty and shortcomings from their religious obligations and convictions, but many are able to do that.

Judith McNaught

#27. The raw and natural sounds of Aero music don't subtract from it's beauty, instead it creates a rich soundscape for the musician to create within.

Jim O Rourke

#28. To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Gerard De Marigny

#29. May your heart open.
May joy emerge.
May love flow through you.
May you heal and help others.

Charlene Costanzo

#30. Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.

Ludwig Von Mises

#31. Poor people are gross and they 'smell bad

Jesse Eisenberg

#32. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.

James A. Garfield

#33. What my campaign is about is a political revolution - millions of people standing up and saying, enough is enough. Our government belongs to all of us, and not just the hand full of billionaires.

Bernie Sanders