Immanuel Kant Quotes

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

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.

All children are born Atheists; they have no idea of God.

I find that my upbringing in the Church and my relationship with God are huge benefits to me in helping me become the kind of person that I want to become.

By helping to raise man above the level of bestial vegetation, faith contributes in reality to the securing and safeguarding of his existence. Take away from present-day mankind its education-based, religious-dogmatic principles- or, practically speaking, ethical-moral principles- by abolishing this religious education, but without replacing it by an equivalent, and the result will be a grave shock to the foundations of their existence.

Implanting spiritual ideas in children is very important. Many people live their entire lives according to the concepts that are implanted in them in childhood. When children learn they will get the most attention and love through doing constructive things, they will tend to stop doing destructive things. Most important of all, remember that children learn through example. No matter what you say it is what you do that will have an influence on them.

Raising children is a journey generously sprinkled with what many view as teachable moments, perhaps none as challenging as those surrounding faith and religion.

An education without a Bible education is no education.

Children often have a much stronger concept of morality than adults.

My faith has been the driving thing of my life. I think it is important that people who are perceived as liberals not be afraid of talking about moral and community values.

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.

Sunday school don't make you cool forever.

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

If we have to give up either religion or education, we should give up education.

The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so.