Mark Pryor Quotes

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way.

I think you can judge from somebody's actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there's a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

With my Roman Catholic upbringing, I have a set of principles that serve me well in good times and bad.

The profound influence of religion on American politics is vital, but it is best when indirect: on the morals, habits, and souls of individual Americans; on the political climate and the principals that should guide policy, rather than on specific policies themselves…

Religion to me really means ethical systems.

Religious institutions ought to have something to say about the normative values of society.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

My faith dictates a whole lot of what I'll do.

Counsel involving right and wrong should never be sought from a man who does not say his prayers.

Growing up in a New Jersey suburb, my Catholic faith was an important part of my young life, shaping the way I approached the world.

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.

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.

I'm a Christian, a conservative and a Republican, in that order.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

I think it's imperative to have faith or religion, because it's good to have morals, to be kind to others.

It is our responsibility to speak on social and moral issues for the instruction of the church and its members.

Christian attitudes are still important in a society even if they are no longer connected with belief.

It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.

My faith is my life. It defines me. My faith doesn’t influence my decisions; it drives them.

I didn't get into politics because I thought government had a better answer. I got into politics because I knew government didn't have the real answers, that the real answers lie in accepting Jesus Christ into our lives…. I hope we answer the alarm clock and take this nation back for Christ.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.