Religious History Quotes:

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Religious, Great Feelings, Inspirational Character

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

- George Washington

topic: Education, Wisdom, Religious, Indulge, Founding

The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Life, Time, Liberty, Manure, Individual Liberty

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

- Thomas Jefferson

topic: Religious, Believe, Ignorance, Theism, State Government

Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may be illustrated by precedents already furnished in their short history.

- James Madison

topic: Government, Religion, Atheism, Guarded, Christian Father

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

- Thomas Paine

topic: Atheist, Pain, Fear, Anti Religious, Religious Faith

The more I sought truth uncorrupted by years of religious history, the more I kept finding answers I didn’t want to find. Emotionally, it would have been easiest for me to just hold on to what I grew up believing, but mentally that wasn’t an option anymore.

- Tim Lambesis

topic: Religious, Believe, Years, Religious History

The Christian is a [person] of joy... A gloomy Christian is a contradiction of terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

- William Barclay

topic: Christian, Religious, Clothes, Black Clothes, Religious History

If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.

- Madeleine Albright

topic: Country, Religious, Issues, Religious History

It is one of the ironies of religious history that many mortals err in their understanding of the nature of God and end up rejecting not the real God but their own erroneous and stereotypical image of God. Frequently this is because they have thought of God solely in terms of thunderings at Sinai without pondering substance. . . .

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Religious, Real, Understanding, Sinai, Religious History

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

- Rick Perlstein

topic: Religious, Theological, Qualms, Qualms About, Religious History

If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

- George Eliot

topic: Religious, Heaven, Feelings, Faith Hope, Faith Hope And Charity

For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no other religious history – perhaps like no other book in any religious history- and still it stands.” Jeffrey R. Holland

- Jeffrey R. Holland

topic: Religious, Book, Years, Famous Book, Examining

A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the whole country had a very special atmosphere. I was there to perform, but it was one of the few places that I've visited over the years that I had some free time to explore, and I was hugely impressed by all the religious history there.

- Andrea Bocelli

topic: Country, Religious, Israel, Religious History

Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

- Thomas Jefferson

source: Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

topic: Religious, Men, Hypocrisy, Mind Free, Religious History

Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and tortuous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we call it the word of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind.

- Thomas Paine

source: Thomas Paine (1877). “The Age of Reason”, p.15, Lyle Stuart

topic: Bible, Religious, Faith Religion, Called By God, Voluptuous

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

- John Adams

source: Letter to Thomas Jefferson, founders.archives.gov. September 03, 1816.

topic: Grief, Faith Religion, Historical, Deism, Our Founding Fathers