religious sentiment Quotes

Sunday is a day given over by Americans to wishing that the themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.

I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel.

If the Church of England had been the established and general religion and all the northern colonies as it has been among us here and uninterrupted tranquility had prevailed throughout the continent, it is clear to me that slavery and subjection might and would have been gradually insulated among us. Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence and ecclesiastical establishments tend to grate ignorance and corruption all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects

In church I feel very close to the publican of the parable.

The essence of religious feeling does not come under any sort of reasoning or atheism, and has nothing to do with any crimes or misdemeanors. There is something else here, and there will always be something else - something that the atheists will for ever slur over; they will always be talking of something else.

Now you pray, and I'm going to pray for you that the Lord will speak to you.

The satellite dish is against the honorable Prophet [Mohammed]

I would say my grandmother would be like my personal god.

We in America should be grateful to God for the blessing he has given us.

This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God.

Our Ancestors founded their government on morality and religious sentiment. They were brought hither by their high veneration of the Christian religion. They journeyed by its light, and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate it with the elements of their society, and to diffuse its influences through all their institutions, civil, political, social, and educational.

I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation.

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization.

I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.

Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.

I know there is a higher being and I respect that force.

It feels like God visits everywhere else, but lives in Africa.

There is no social evil, no form of injustice whether of the feudal or the capitalist order which has not been sanctified in some way or other by religious sentiment and thereby rendered more impervious to change.

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.

We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

The purely emotional form of Pietism is, as Ritschl has pointed out, a religious dilettantism for the leisure class.

And I feel just like Jesus' son

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated.