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My grandmother was very influential in my life. She was...

My grandmother was very influential in my life. She was very religious and very systematic about her religion.

Quote by Erykah Badu about religion, life

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious...

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Quote by John Adams about moral, people

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, ...

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Quote by Joseph Addison about morality, authority

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Quote by George W. Bush about patience, judges, purpose, religion, common sense, sense

The '70s was a lost time for me. I looked at different...

The '70s was a lost time for me. I looked at different religious or spiritual leaders. I read a lot of books with a Buddhist background.

Quote by Julie Christie about books, time

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith.

Quote by Maggie Gallagher about faith, state, moral, public, rightness

I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.

Quote by Larry Hagman about morality, common sense, sense, country, rightness

The equality that we are all entitled to, as citizens of this democracy, can't be avoided by some religious dogma of a President who's is supposed to believe in the notion of separation of church and state. And he frankly doesn't.

Quote by Rosie O'Donnell about democracy, equality, state

With regard to the moral and religious condition of the slaves, I cannot, either from what I observe, or from what is told me, consider it in any way gratifying.

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about religion, moral

I believe in the equality of man, and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Quote by Thomas Paine about man, mercy, equality, justice, happiness

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due...

The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.

Quote by Thomas Paine about religion, world

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and...

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Quote by Theodore Parker about self-control, character

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when...

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about man

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

Quote by Walter Pater about age, art, magic, olderness

Art and poetry, philosophy and the religious life, and that other life of refined pleasure and action in the conspicuous places of the world, are each of them confined to its own circle of ideas, and those who prosecute either of them are...

Quote by Walter Pater about art, philosophy, action, pleasure, poetry, life, magic, world

The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.

Quote by Papa John Paul II about question, man

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.

Quote by Richard Burton about recollection, events, memory, dream, man, life

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Quote by Oprah Winfrey about religion, spirit

Consequently, the sentimental furniture that becomes a religious one belongs without a doubt to the environment, to the outside and in no way to the inside, to the self in which this exterior reflects like in a mirror of our own Destiny.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about destiny, doubt, self-control

The prophetic statute of the man consists too of the fact that he is a predominantly religious being, but the path he has chosen to define himself as homo religioso is as alien to him as possible.

Quote by Sorin Cerin about man, being

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