William Jennings Bryan Quotes

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

To the extent that the parents who send their children to these [Catholic] schools are parents like my own, who actually have faith in the church. Faith that it will provide their children with safety, a decent education and values about life and others. This is an institution that stands for all good in the world.

When I was growing up, I went to an Irish-Christian missionary school.

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

The essence of a religion can be discovered by asking its adherents one question: 'What, to your mind, was the seminal moment in the history of the world?'

The parents have a right to say that no teacher paid by their money shall rob their children of faith in God and send them back to their homes skeptical, or infidels, or agnostics, or atheists.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Is there any wonder that there can be no peace in a world where everything possible is done to guarantee that the youth of every nation will grow up absolutely without moral and religious discipline, and without the shadow of an interior life, or of that spirituality, charity and faith which alone can safeguard the treaties and agreements made by governments?

I’d like to see us re-institute school prayer so that our young children have some moral beliefs, they have some principles

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

I think parents should be able to teach their kids what their faith says, what science says.

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.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I'm not a member of any faith community, and I think faith is a deeply personal issue that individuals should deal with in their private lives.

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

In search of a complete education with the ideals of trust, faith, understanding and compassion, many families are turning to the structure, discipline and academic standards of Catholic schools.

Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

But I like going to church. If you've been brought up in the Church of England, it feels like visiting an elderly relative. And I think it's important that part of the kids' education is knowing about the Bible.

We ask why there is violence in our schools, but we have systematically removed God from our schools.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.

I think students should know something about religion as a historical phenomenon, in the same way that they should know something about socialism and humanism and the other great ideas that have shaped political philosophies and therefore the course of human events.

My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul.