Jesse Helms Quotes

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

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Authentic religion does not require politicians

I respect religion and will respect any religion.

Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.

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

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

Understanding the need for religion is a far superior goal to bashing it.

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

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.

One is often told that it is a very wrong thing to attack religion, because religion makes men virtuous. So I am told; I have not noticed it.

Faith accepts no commands. It accepts only what comes to it by way of reasoned conviction.

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

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.

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

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

Ever since I was young, I was always interested in exploring spirituality. I know that there are many paths to God, there is not just one path.

I'm not a religious person; I'm more of a spiritual person, so I follow the rules of the Bible that coordinate with and connect with the Hebrew culture.

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?'

Faith is a continuation of reason.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

We are obliged, therefore, to say that whoever speaks that which is foreign to religion is using many words, while he who speaks the words of truth, even should he go over the whole field and omit nothing, is always speaking the one word.