Barry W. Lynn Quotes

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

I'm not intolerant. I just know what it says in The Scriptures.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Religion is of general and public concern, and on its support depend, in great measure, the peace and good order of government, the safety and happiness of the people.

So much about religion has to do with rigid, sacrosanct preciousness. I don't live my life that way, and I don't feel that's what Baha'u'llah teaches.

Religion and the public liberty of a people are interwoven, and cannot exist separately.

We early freed ourselves from the incubus of a State Church.

There is a noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine

The answer to bad religion is not secularism. It’s better religion.

I’m trying to be a real Muslim, who respects others and respects the freedom of the people to choose their own religious denominations or even to not believe in God in the first place.

Religion and God are totally separate. Religion is created by government. God is God.

Indeed, in view of its function, religion stands in greater need of a rational foundation of its ultimate principles than even the dogmas of science.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

Religion survives because it answers three questions that every reflective person must ask. Who am I? Why am I here? How then shall I live?

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays... and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

Religion is not only a part of education, an element of humanity, but the center of everything else, always the first and the ultimate, the absolutely original.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.