#religious

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#believers #engage #establish #faith #imply

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#bring #insights #new #politics #reject

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life. ↗

— William Law

#condition #conduct #consist #does #duties

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#religious #love

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect. ↗

— James Madison

#enterprise #every #expanded #mind #noble

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence. ↗

— James Madison

#confidence #religious #sentiments #surprising #union

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people. ↗

— Leon Wieseltier

#moral #people #religious #religious people #secular

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. ↗

— George McClellan

#constitutional #constitutional rights #far #military #necessity

If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#best #critical #element #engage #experience