Louis Finkelstein Quotes

My faith is very private to me. It plays an important part in my life, but I do not try and throw my beliefs at others. I have tremendous respect for all faiths and beliefs, but have a deep concern that religion and faith are currently a long way apart from each other.

I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.

Our religion, then, rests on the credit due to these witnesses.

What we need in Europe is to push back against the idea that religion is so farfetched that it's not worth talking about.

We realize that Judaism as a faith can survive only in an atmosphere of general faith.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

I've been really privileged to work for two presidents - President Obama and President Clinton - who are both people of faith, who value faith, and who respect that others have the same feelings in their own lives.

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility.

As men's habits of mind differ, so that some more readily embrace one form of faith, some another, for what moves one to pray may move another only to scoff, I conclude, in accordance with what has gone before, that everyone should be free to choose for himself the foundations of his creed, and that faith should be judged only by its fruits; each would then obey God freely with his whole heart, while nothing would be publicly honoured save justice and charity.

We in the United States are pluralistic respecting ultimate beliefs. Profound values exist apart from a devotion to a god.

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.

My goal is never to make fun of religion.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

Now, you can't tell me, we have the only God in the whole world. You can't tell me that nobody else has God.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.

We are not against religions. This country is the cradle of prophecy and the true message and we will not contradict this.

I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn't an absurd thing - a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body.

People outside of the faith really appreciate Mosaic and really love what we're doing.

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

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

I come from an almost wholly secular background and have no quarrel with religion.

Everyone - whether it's the Jews, the Greeks, the Catholics - everybody is entitled to religious beliefs and entitled to their traditions.

In America you have the right to worship any way you choose. That's why virtually every faith and every denomination on Earth has a presence in our land. You have a right to not believe in God at all.