Pastoral Resources

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

The real problem that I think those of us who are evangelicals and Democrats have to face up to is that the political right controls the religious media.

That's what they do in Europe. You go down to the city hall and you become legally connected. You have a civil union there. Then, if you're religious, you go down to the church, and the church blesses the union. That gets the problem solved.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising money - I hate to bring this up - are pushing hot buttons.

We all have our pet things that we like to get religious about.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

We should not run away from religious teachings. We should run to them.

My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.

By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.