Best religious & virtue Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“What other nations call religious toleration, we call religious rights. They are not exercised in virtue of governmental indulgence, but as rights, of which government cannot deprive any portion of citizens, however small.”

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Author:Richard Mentor Johnson

“Superstition is related to this life, religion to the next; superstition is allied to fatality, religion to virtue; it is by the vivacity of earthly desires that we become superstitious; it is, on the contrary, by the sacrifice of these desires that we become religious.”

Desire Next Religious Virtue Sacrifice Contrary This Life Related Superstitions Superstitious Fatality Vivacity Earthly Desires

Author:Madame de Stael

“Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key, that it's the sine-qua-non of religion, people look kind of balked, and stubborn sometimes, as much to say, what's the point of having religion if you can't disapprove of other people?”

People Ifs Looks Kind Important Sometimes Religious Compassion Virtue Keys Stubborn

Author:Karen Armstrong

“Owing to the identification of religion with virtue, together with the fact that the most religious men are not the most intelligent, a religious education gives courage to the stupid to resist the authority of educated men, as has happened, for example, where the teaching of evolution has been made illegal. So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence; and in this respect ministers of religion follow gospel authority more closely than in some others.”

Source: Education and the Social Order

“Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.”

Source: In defense of secular humanism

“To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.”

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Book:Warranted Christian Belief

Source: Warranted Christian Belief

“I am truly amazed that after all this time, religious groups still need to attack entertainment and use these tragedies as a pitiful excuse for their own self-serving publicity. In response to their protests, I will provide a show where I balance my songs with a wholesome Bible reading. This way, fans will not only hear my so-called, violent point of view, but we can also examine the virtues of wonderful 'Christian' stories of disease, murder, adultery, suicide and child sacrifice. Now that seems like 'entertainment' to me.”

“Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.”

Character Turns Belief Religious Virtue Atheism Source Authority Endure Obedience Consistent Admiration Piety Religious Belief Obedience To Authority

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“Credulity as a character trait is encouraged in every child who grows up with religious training, which invariably insists on the virtue of blind faith and the sinfulness of doubting and questioning.”

Children Character Grows Religious Growing Up Virtue Doubt Training Blind Traits Questioning Blind Faith Credulity Gullibility Sinfulness Character Trait

Author:Barbara G. Walker

“The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue. True morality, true philosophy and true art are in their essence ("dans leur essence", Fr.) religious."”

Men Wells Art Philosophy Shows Religious Virtue Divine Morality Elements Essence Aptitude

Author:African Spir

“The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.”

Religious Perfect Powerful Virtue Grace Praying Models Blessed Saint Virgins Helpers Virgin Mary

Book:True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

Source: True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort

“These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness”

Source: Children of Dune

“I do believe that nice religious people make the world safe for extremists by teaching us [...] that faith is a virtue, teaching us that there's something good about holding beliefs without any substantiating evidence. Once you buy into that, [...] then the door is opened to extremists who defend their extremism by saying, 'Oh well, it's my faith, you can't touch it, you can't criticise my faith, I don't even need to defend it because faith is faith.'”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.”

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Author:Fisher Ames

“Removing religion from the womb of culture has become the practiced virtue of the ACLU over the past several decades.”

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Author:William Anthony Donohue

“The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.”

Men Religious Perfect Common Virtue Perfection Constant Heroic Small Things Fidelity Perfect Man Common Things

Author:Bonaventure

“Man is an Animal, formidable both from his Passions and his Reason; his Passions often urging him to great Evils, and his Reason furnishing Means to achieve them. To train this Animal, and make him amenable to Order; to inure him to a Sense of Justice and Virtue, to withhold him from ill Courses by Fear, and encourage him in his Duty by Hopes; in short, to fashion and model him for Society, hath been the Aim of civil and religious Institutions; and, in all Times, the Endeavour of good and wise Men. The aptest Method for attaining this End, hath been always judged a proper Education.”

“Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.”

Suffering Faith Religious Virtue Evidence Fruit Exceptional Faith And Patience

Author:John Calvin

“The great virtue of a free market is that it enables people who hate each other, or who are from vastly different religious or ethnic backgrounds, to cooperate economically. Government intervention can't do that.”

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Author:Milton Friedman

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