Religiously Quotes

#1. when I ran mortgages, I religiously took people from the back office. At first I did it for moral reasons. But it worked. They appreciated it. They didn't feel like the world owed them a living. They were more loyal.

Michael Lewis

#2. You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

Bill Nye

#3. The Muslim Brotherhood is a religiously conservative group. They are a minority in Egypt. They are not a majority of the Egyptian people, but they have a lot of credibility because all the other liberal parties have been smothered for 30 years.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#4. I once dieted so religiously I quit eating in church.

Zig Ziglar

#5. All coaches religiously carry fungo bats in the spring to ward off suggestions that they are not working.

Jim Brosnan

#6. All my life I have prayed to God that I should remain religiously orthodox, culturally conservative, politically liberal and economically pragmatic.

Richard John Neuhaus

#7. You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well, I took masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

#8. In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.

Adam Hamilton

#9. A chorus of tough southern belles whispered, You need a loyal husband around here. Loyal to you, loyal to your family, loyal to your land.
I added, Good in bed, smart, and romantic. Politically, socially, and religiously compatible. And he had to want children.

Deborah Smith

#10. John D Rockefeller read his Bible religiously, but kept his ledger in a different drawer.

H.W. Brands

#11. Education ought everywhere to be religious education. Parents are bound to employ no instructors who will instruct their children religiously. To commit children to the care of irreligious persons is to commit lambs to the superintendency of wolves.

Timothy Dwight V

#12. The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.

Stephen L. Carter

#13. People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

Immortal Technique

#14. I try to keep my mind active. I'm a solitaire and puzzle addict. I exercise religiously. I don't do many things religiously and I've taken up golf to have something to do when I have nothing to do.

Morgan Freeman

#15. It is still fashionable to believe that how you organize yourself religiously in this life may matter for eternity. Unless we can erode the prestige of that kind of thinking, we're not going to be able to undermine these divisions in our world.

Sam Harris

#16. The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

Jo Brand

#17. Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. We're in a religious war and we need to aggressively oppose secular humanism; these people are as religiously motivated as we are and they are filled with the devil.

Tim LaHaye

#19. You put cow dung on my face?' 'Every day religiously until you were three. Why else do you think your skin is so clear?

Renita D'Silva

#20. What a misfortune it would be, religiously speaking and educationally speaking, if we could only work happily with those who saw things as we do.

Janet Erskine Stuart

#21. I wasn't raised very religiously because my parents went to Catholic school, but I do believe in God very much. I just never gave God a name, if you know what I mean. I hope I haven't let Him down regardless.

Stephen Chbosky

#22. Twitter is essential to me because I wake up and check it religiously. It's a way I communicate with my fan base.

Theophilus London

#23. I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.

Erinn Hayes

#24. Many Christians with Ph.D.'s have simply absorbed a two-track approach to their subject, treating science or sociology or history as though it consisted of religiously neutral knowledge, where biblical truth has nothing important to say.

Nancy Pearcey

#25. A man in whom religion is an inspiration, who has surrendered his being to its power, who drinks it, breathes it, bathes in it, cannot speak otherwise than religiously.

J.G. Holland

#26. As each individual is electrically alive and dynamic, so yoga is a living, dynamic force in life. In order to savor its essence, one needs a religiously attentive dynamic practice done with awareness and absorption.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#27. My sister's the type who religiously watches the fear segments of her local Eyewitness News broadcasts, retaining nothing but the headline ... Everything is dangerous all of the time, and if it's not yet been pulled off the shelves, then it's certainly under investigation
so there.

David Sedaris

#28. The thirties were troublesome in Belfast, and then of course there was no work for people, and it was terribly religiously divided.

Frank Carson

#29. As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all.

George B. McClellan

#30. I mostly work out so I can eat religiously. I'm such a foodie. The only way I can make myself feel better about what I eat is to work out.

Justin Timberlake

#31. A religiously ambiguous Thomas Jefferson is not useful to the Christian right.

Matt McCook

#32. I'm cold, Religiously cold.

Will Christopher Baer

#33. I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.

Joseph Conrad

#34. No country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law, and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Mark Twain

#35. Most of the forward movements of life in general ... have been the work of essentially religiously-minded people.

Charles Ives

#36. Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

Mike Ditka

#37. When I was younger, I jumped out of a moving car. I would do anything. Now, being a father and knowing the political state of the world, there are certain things which potentially could be religiously volatile that I would probably avoid, but not much.

Nick Frost

#38. The ACLU is not just religiously neutral, but staunchly anti-religious. Particularly, anti-Christian.

F. LaGard Smith

#39. We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#40. Historically, opposition to immigration in the United States has been racially and religiously motivated in the ugliest, nastiest way possible.

Grover Norquist

#41. [Palestinians] are becoming religiously fanatic. Israel is becoming irrelevant. They do it for religious purpose, fanatic, they want to conquer the Middle East under the command of the Iranians.

Shimon Peres

#42. Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.

Stephen King

#43. I've always been religiously inclined, but it doesn't come up in most of my books.

Emma Donoghue

#44. I pay attention when the Academy Awards come around. I haven't watched them in a while, but I used to watch them religiously when I was a kid.

Alex Ebert

#45. I've found that people feel very free to say insulting things, not about me personally, but about the things I believe. It's sad, because I really could care less where people are coming from, politically, religiously.

Patricia Heaton

#46. In short, ISIS is composed of religiously motivated psychopaths,

Jay Sekulow

#47. The rains are rhythmic, coming religiously in the afternoons (after lunch has been eaten but before tea, so that the nights are washed clean-black with bright pinpoints of silver starlight hanging over a restless, grateful earth).

Alexandra Fuller

#48. I really love eating, so I love reading about food, and I religiously read the dining section in newspapers.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#49. The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#50. In general, daily strips were just a regular part of my childhood. So even if I wasn't a huge fan of most of those strips, I still read them religiously every morning while I ate my cereal.

Adrian Tomine

#51. I carried it (a revolver) religiously and during the summer I asked a friend, a man who had been one of Franklin's bodyguards in New York State, to give me some practice in target shooting so that if the need arose I would know how to use the gun.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#52. I've followed the NBA religiously since I was a kid, and now because of my boy Tony Parker, I'm a huge Spurs fan.

Thierry Henry

#53. I have one mascara that I use religiously, and I refuse to try anything else, and if they discontinued it I would probably cry. Cover Girl lash blast, in the orange tube.

Nina Dobrev

#54. Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most

Tim Mackintosh-Smith

#55. I never completely understood the phrase, "I took my medicine religiously", unless of course it was a religion I was unfamiliar with!!

Neil Leckman

#56. In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.

Stephen L. Carter

#57. I'm not religiously religious, but I'm happy to call Jesus my copilot when it feels necessary.

Desmond Doane

#58. I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

Oscar Nunez

#59. It appears that having a close walk with the Lord is not religiously acceptable.

Gene Edwards

#60. The religiously-minded dualist calls homemade spirits from the vasty deep; the nondualist calls the vasty deep into his spirit or, to be more accurate, he finds that the vasty deep is already there.

Aldous Huxley

#61. We want to make it socially, morally, politically and religiously unacceptable to have substandard housing and homelessness.

Millard Fuller

#62. Celebrity is seen by a huge amount of people and certainly myself for a while as the pinnacle of society, of success. It is revered almost religiously, both the institution and its quickly growing member base.

Jack Gleeson

#63. I started watching 'The Stooges' religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

Chris Diamantopoulos

#64. I have two rules I follow religiously:
#1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
#2. It's all small stuff.

R. Rose

#65. I'm not committed as a writer, in the usual sense of the term, either religiously or politically. And I'm not conscious of any particular social function. I write because I want to write. I don't see any placards on myself, and I don't carry any banners.

Harold Pinter

#66. In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.

Vincent Nichols

#67. Since man is a moral being, his culture cannot be a-moral. Because man is a religious being, his culture, too, must be religiously oriented.

Henry R. Van Til

#68. I think I had an advantage in the sense that I wasn't raised religiously.

Amber Tamblyn

#69. It isn't as important to religiously cliam God/Jesus, then it is for us to live what we're professing to cliam ...

Shenica N. Coleman

#70. I used to believe that the number eight is unlucky for me and would even avoid anything that would add up to 8 - like 17, 26 and so on. I would religiously visit astrologers and wear different stones to bring in good luck.

Emraan Hashmi

#71. Philosophy for me is essentially atheistic. Now that's an anxious atheism. It's an atheism that is anxious because it inhabits questions that were resolved religiously in the pre-modern period.

Simon Critchley

#72. Almost religiously, I step away from everything and close my eyes and breathe deeply for a few moments. It helps solidify my focus and aligns everything in my body to take care of the task at hand - which is winning, of course.

Amanda Beard

#73. In a morally and religiously diverse culture such as ours, humility is a much-needed key to harmony.

John Dickson

#74. To be like God is not to have perfect doctrinal integrity, to get the details of church "right," or to be religiously and moralistically pure. To be like God is to dirty our hands with the labor of love.

Ronnie McBrayer

#75. How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Burton

#76. Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.

Kenneth Scott Latourette

#77. Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because it was so clearly a religiously inspired movement that entered the public arena and made a major difference in American life.

Bruce L. Shelley

#78. I lived in Japan for about two years. I spent my time equally between religiously studying Aikido in Shinjuku by day and hard partying in Shibuya and Roppongi by night. On more than a few nights, those subways were my own personal stage coach to hell.

Sturgill Simpson

#79. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

#80. Stop buying into the story others coined for you, and also refrain- religiously, from believing in the narrative your circumstance forces you to live...

Assegid Habtewold

#81. Clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline, unable to distinguish between what's true and what feels good, we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

Carl Sagan

#82. A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

William Bennett

#83. I definitely try to broaden the scope of music. I don't know if it's pop or classical or what, but I'm religiously challenging myself all the time, for better or for worse.

Rufus Wainwright

#84. Even though our society is increasingly pluralistic, we must ensure an equal playing field rather than a religiously cleansed arena where people of faith are no longer welcome.

Jay Sekulow

#85. Love rationally.
Love religiously.
Love resiliently.
Love rejoicingly.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#86. No parent ought to punish a child except with a view to the child's good. And in order to do good to a child through his punishment, a parent must religiously refrain from punishing him while angry.

Henry Clay Trumbull

#87. Like all people with nothing to do, he was very disciplined and stuck religiously to the schedule he had imposed on himself. He

Ajith Pillai

#88. The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for them except that he never thought to ask for them because he was too busy trying cheerlessly and religiously to earn them.

Frederick Buechner

#89. The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves.

Terry Tempest Williams

#90. The tedium vitae so constant in antiquity was due to the fact that the outstanding individual was what others could not be; the inspiration of modern times will be that any man who finds himself, religiously speaking, has only achieved what every one can achieve.

Soren Kierkegaard

#91. I hope to never stop growing. I hope that with every role I play, I keep adding layers to my craft. I love acting and I study religiously with my coach.

Eva Mendes

#92. The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau

#93. The men expressed the shock of reading something geared exclusively to the feminine. It stunned them with an awareness of what women experience. They said they'd felt religiously excluded for the first time in their lives.

Sue Monk Kidd

#94. One of the features of a democracy is the disentanglement of the sacred from the secular because in religiously pluralistic countries, no one can legitimately claim special status by faith membership.

Michael Shermer

#95. I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Molly Antopol

#96. I don't want to be religious, I want to be spiritual. Anybody can be religious. Some people jog religiously. You don't want to be that, you want to be spiritual. You want to have a relationship with God as opposed to doing what everyone else does.

Lauryn Hill

#97. It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social cost. By the same token, it is haram to deal in narcotics in any way, i.e., carrying, transporting, storing, selling, buying, etc.

Ali Khamenei

#98. I work out religiously. It's great for my back. It's great for my core. I've been exposed to lots of exercise regimens and movement classes as an actor, so I understand the importance of stretching and staying limber, but Pilates is what's really spoken to me. It works everything out.

Thomas Gibson

#99. Technically, 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie' was a kids' show, but adults watched almost religiously - and we're talking adult adults, celebrated adults - including James Thurber, Orson Welles, John Steinbeck, Adlai E. Stevenson and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Tom Shales

#100. Demons," drawled the blond boy, tracing the word on the air with his finger. "Religiously defined as hell's denizens, the servants of Satan, but understood here, for the purposes of the Clave, to be any malevolent spirit whose origin is outside our own home dimension -

Cassandra Clare