Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

I believe in full freedom for Christians of all denominations.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

We'll surely stop the work of all western Christian and eastern religions, and also Islam.

Vladimir Lenin

There can be nothing more abominable than religion.

Wayne Dyer

My beliefs are that the truth is a truth until you organize it, and then it becomes a lie. I don't think that Jesus was teaching Christianity, Jesus was teaching kindness, love, concern, and peace. What I tell people is don't be Christian, be Christ-like. Don't be Buddhist, be Buddha-like.

Virginia Woolf

You would get longer livelier and more frequent letters from me, if it weren't for the Christian religion. How that bell tolling at the end of the garden, dum dum, dum dum, annoys me! Why is Christianity so insistent and so sad?

You need more fact in the dangerous art of giving presents than in any other social action.

William Bennett

I have no doubt that the real irritation of those on the religious right is not that their particular creed is not embraced by the schools, but that often their creed is the only one singled out for contempt.

William Bennett

It is ironic that anyone who appeals to religious values today runs the risk of being called 'divisive' or attacked as an enemy of pluralism.

William Bennett

America's only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry against religious people. And the only reason for hatred of religion is that it forces us to confront matters many would prefer to ignore.

William Bennett

In the battle for preserving sound social and moral norms, many religious institutions can no longer be counted as allies.

William Bennett

Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?

William Bennett

From Samuel Adams to Patrick Henry to Benjamin Franklin to Alexander Hamilton, all the Founders intended religion to provide a moral anchor for our liberty in democracy.

William Bennett

President Bush was widely ridiculed for consulting the Reverend Billy Graham before the Gulf war.

William Bennett

The new source of divisiveness is the assault of secularism on religion.

William Bennett

The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms.

William Bennett

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.

William Bennett

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

William Bennett

Much of the left-liberal elite despise traditional religious beliefs ... in general, they are profoundly uncomfortable with religious institutions and the traditional values they embody.

William Blake

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

William Blake

Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

Walid Jumblatt

The U.S. always needs an enemy. It comes and goes. Today it is Islam. According to this plan or ideology of the born-again Christians who formed an alliance with Zionism, Islam is the monster.

Vladimir Putin

If you are a Christian, you are in danger. Even if you are an atheist, you are in danger, and if you decide to convert to Islam, this will not save you, either, because traditional Islam is inimical to the conditions and objectives set by the terrorists.

William Gurnall

And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comesto stay everlastingly with them; whreas your peace is going is going from you every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again. Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.

William Gurnall

Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope."

William Gurnall

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death. Why shouldst thou be afraid to die, who hopest to live by dying!

William Gurnall

God, to prevent all escape, hath sown the seeds of death in our very constitution and nature, so that we can as soon run from ourselves, as run from death. We need no feller to come with a hand of violence and hew us down; there is in the tree a worm, which grows out of its own substance, that will destroy it; so in us, those infirmities of nature that will bring us down to the dust.

William Gurnall

As you love your peace, Christian, be plain-hearted with God and man, and keep the king's highway.

William Gurnall

Set a strong guard about thy outward senses: these are Satan's landing places, especially the eye and the ear.

William Gurnall

Let thy hope of heaven master thy fear of death.

William Gurnall

The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with him; yea, will not let him go without a blessing... They are only a few noble-spirited souls, who dare take heaven by force, that are fit for this calling.

William Gurnall

The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

William Gurnall

The Christian must stand fixed to his principles, and not change his habit; but freely show what countryman he is by his holy constancy in the truth.

William Gurnall

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.