Leverett Saltonstall Quotes

I'm not a Christian for your benefit. I'm a Christian for my benefit, and how I walk my walk is my business, and how you walk your walk is your business.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

People of faith should be able to have confidence in their right to freely express and live their beliefs.

The Religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate. This right is in its nature an unalienable right.

Well, it all depends on how you, you know, perceive the religion angle. I always say to each their own and I'd much rather have a guy that's going to be preaching religion as oppose a guy who's going to be shooting himself in the leg.

I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Usually, it is not my habit to address religious issues on the floor. I strongly believe in a person's right to religious freedom, as well as the separation of church and state.

I don't disrespect anybody who espouses a particular religion or belief - that is their own right to do that. But I think it's terribly important to look beyond the comfort that religion gives.

Find me the men on earth who care / Enough for faith or creed today / To seek a barren wilderness / For simple liberty to pray.

Faith comes not by compulsion, but it is a matter of free choice; therefore, no one has the authority to compel anyone else in such matters, nor to coerce him with new laws

No human being - and certainly no man - has the right to define for me what my understanding of God is.

One man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.

I personally feel that religion should be kept private.

In Lincoln's day a President's religion was a very private affair. There were no public prayer meetings, no attempts to woo the Religious Right. Few of Lincoln's countrymen knew anything at all of his religious beliefs.

I haven't chosen to make an issue of faith.

I never found much comfort in overly organized religion of any sort.

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.

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

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.

Faith is a private issue. At least, I consider it to be one.

It's OK to be outspoken about your faith.

Those nations that say it's a crime to preach your religion are making a terrible mistake. All they're doing is driving underground other forms of spiritual intuitions and practices.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.