Private Beliefs Quotes

I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private.

Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

The principles which men profess on any controverted subject are usually a very incomplete exponent of the opinions they really hold.

No human government has the right to enquire into private opinions ...

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Things have come to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade the sphere of private life.

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

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

My grandparents used to pray five times a day, but they were quiet about their own thing. Completely liberal day by day; my grandmother was a social worker and my grandfather was an engineer, but they never talked about religion. My entire life I couldn't remember one conversation I had with them about religion.

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

My aunt used to say, "It's between me and my god; it's got nothing to do with you." It was a good enough answer for me as a snot-nosed college kid angling for a religious debate, and I still think it's a good way of putting it.

I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

You should understand that private faith does not force public decisions. That's how you work at compromise. I haven't given up what I believe, but I live in community - in a city, state, nation, and world - with people who don't believe what I believe. That doesn't make them defective or inferior.

Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.

For when morality is strictly up to the individual, with no judgment possible by communities it is likely that everyone will do what is right in his own eyes.... America will then become a land composed of strangers whose religion, if any, is a private matter, and who are bound by no social ties or common aspirations.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.