Rick Santorum Quotes

Rather than an excess of firearms there's a shortage of faith and family that has a lot more to do with what happened out in Littleton. Let's face it, our public square is more hostile to religion than it is to Marilyn Manson.

I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

I believe in faith, family and country. I really keep it that simple.

The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order ...

God, Homeland, Family.

The loss of respect for religion is the dry rot of social institutions. The idea of God as the Creator and Father of all mankind is to the moral world, what gravitation is in the natural; it holds everything else together and causes it to revolve around a common center. Take this away and any ultimate significance to life falls apart. There is then no such thing as collective humanity, but only separate molecules of men and women drifting in the universe with no more cohesion and no more meaning than so many grains of sand have meaning for the sea.

I was introduced to the church through my parents but I had to struggle and find it on my own. In the end I learned much of my faith and found much of my strength through watching my father's and mother's journeys.

My grandmother and my upbringing filled me with the spirit of the church and the spirit of the faith brought by Africans to the new land during slavery.

Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

I know how much respect I have for people of all different faiths, but especially for my family, who are the most important people in my life, and who are still practicing, and deeply religious.

I thank the Lord for the night time.

I grew up, as reported, in a large family of Catholics without even a decent ration of tentativeness among the lot of us about our religious faith.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

Today courts wrongly interpret separation of church and state to mean that religion has no place in the public arena, or that morality derived from religion should not be permitted to shape our laws. Somehow freedom for religious expression has become freedom from religious expression. Secularists want to empty the public square of religion and religious-based morality so they can monopolize the shared space of society with their own views. In the process they have made religious believers into second-class citizens.

The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values

Religion, whatever it is, is a man's total reaction upon life.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

Richard John Neuhaus, in his well-known book The Naked Public Square, tells us that in America, the public square has become openly hostile to religion.

Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.