Religious Education Quotes

We are a mixed marriage, so our kids were raised with a little less Judaism than I was raised with.

The only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican forms of government is the universal education of our youth in the principles of Christianity by means of the Bible.

I am an atheist, and I believe that religion should not be in the classrooms; it has to be in the churches. In the classrooms, you have to form citizenship, not people with religious beliefs, that corresponds to the private sphere.

My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

I am very proud of being Jewish. I went to a Jewish school all my life.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.

I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

I mean, I went to a Catholic boys' school for a year, but that was to play hockey. Religion class was quite contentious for me.

I was raised Catholic. I went to Catholic school for 12 years.

I'm very interested in the history of Christianity, and what I can say for sure is that the Catholics and the Jesuits and stuff were very big on teaching and on learning.

I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.

It is long overdue for parents to realize they have the right and duty to protect our children against the intolerant evolutionists.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Christmas may have many general folk elements are popular with children. But sincere and thoughtful Christians will surely agree that Christmas is primarily a religious festival…. The practice of calling on Jewish children to join in the singing of Christmas carols, to take part in Christmas plays … must be regarded as an infringement on their rights as Americans.

Since the association of seasonal activities with religious activities in the public schools tends to pervert their religious significance, such association be discouraged as foreign to the purpose of the public schools.

My dad was a Buddhist when I was young, so when I was begging to become a Catholic, he was saying no and imparting Buddhist precepts.

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.

We had a Jewish school; we had a Jewish club. My father was a main donor. My mother was on the committee of the school.

The responsibility to seek learning by faith rests upon each of us individually, and this obligation will become increasingly important as the world in which we live grows more confused and troubled.

Perhaps there was a correlation between taking prayer and Bible study out of schools, and what has happened in our society.

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

Luther and the Reformation were of fundamental importance to Denmark. We Danes are still Lutherans today. We spoke about him a lot in school, and we feel very close to him.

Right now religion has the romantic aura of the forbidden - Christ is cool. We need to bring it into the schools, which kids already hate, and associate it firmly with boredom, regulation, condescension, makework and de facto segregation ... Prayer in the schools will rid us of the bland no-offense ecumenism that is so infuriating to us anticlericals: Oh, so now you say Jews didn't kill Christ - a little on the late side, isn't it?

Religion is the solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.

I was brought up a Catholic, for that you get an A level in guilt.