Religious Groups Quotes

As far apart as they are theologically, Mormons and evangelical Christians may have more in common with each other anthropologically than they do with secular Americans watching 'Big Love' on HBO.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits.... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

Baptists don’t spend their time thinking about reality.

And, for instance, Baptists, Adventists, Lutherans, Pentecostals - let them exist on line with others.

Most people think the Shakers are in Pennsylvania. They tend to confuse them with the Amish.

Each religious sect has its own physiognomy. The Methodists have acquired a face; the Quakers, a face; the nuns, a face. An Englishman will pick out a dissenter by his manners.

Whatever their defects, Christian fundamentalists have lived peacefully among us in America for several hundred years.

If Baptists want to sleep in the pews and Pentecostals want to leap over them, it is none of Congress's business.

Gay people don’t actually try to convert people. That’s Jehovah’s Witnesses you’re thinking of.

Hillary Clinton is campaigning in Iowa, virtually going door to door to every home in Iowa. Jehovah's Witnesses finally got fed up and said, 'Get lost. Get out of here!'

I can tell you that the majority of the Egyptians I know, they think of a much wider spectrum of people than the Muslim Brotherhood.

Both Christians and religious Jews are finding it increasingly difficult to practice their faiths through college groups on so-called mainline campuses in the United States.

If you divide Christians into denominations, agnostics and atheists come in third, behind Catholics and Baptists. That's interesting when you contrast it with the lack of influence of nonbelievers.

The First Amendment does not select any one group or any one type of religion for preferred treatment.

Twenty percent of students in Israel's schools are haredim; another 20% are retired; another 20% are Arab. I have no problem with any of them.

No new sect ever had humor; no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.

Watch your Catholic population. They breed like rabbits.

The U.K. has some of the best protections in law for religious groups in the world. They aren't perfect, but they provide a strong basis for religious groups to be free from fear of discrimination. I'm proud of this because it underpins what is decent about our country.

The argument that gay marriage doesn't affect straight marriages is a ridiculous red herring: Gay marriage affects society and law in dramatic ways. Religious groups will come under direct assault as federal and state governments move to strip them of their non-profit statuses if they refuse to perform gay marriages.

Kentucky has a strong separationist constitution, but Kentucky politicians and the general public have been terribly remiss by ignoring those provisions. The state also has religious groups wanting public money and politicians wanting the votes of religious people, which makes for strong temptations on both sides.

We explored cults in 'Sound of My Voice.' I think cults have an underlying spiritual quality.

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of the country.

… the growth of the political independence of Christian, Hindu, Jewish, and Muslim groups from the institutions of government has allowed them to exercise greater leverage over the state and the development of more activist political theologies.

If a State refused to let religious groups use facilities open to others, then it would demonstrate not neutrality but hostility toward religion.

We have to remember to respect the faith of people and maybe not the organizations or the groups that manifest around it.