Brandon Flowers Quotes

Religion is the anchor of morality for most people.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

We don't put the Ten Commandments in school anymore. We just neglect everything and people act like the Ten Commandments is something so terrible. I mean, it's a way to live. I think we all could agree on what they say.

Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

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.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would follow.

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.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

I guess to me religion is a kind of moral code.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Religion is one of the most important forces in the world. Whether you are a Christian, a Muslim, a Buddhist, a Jew, or a Hindu, religion is a great force, and it can help one have command of one's own morality, one's own behavior, and one's own attitude.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

I believed in the Catholic position, the Catholic view of ethics and aesthetics, for a long time. But I wanted something not intellectual, some conviction not mental - in fact I wanted faith.

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

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

I think it's more difficult to live without a religion, definitely.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.