Religious Legacy Quotes

I grew up in a deeply Catholic home. Our parents always encouraged us to march to our own drums, though, so some of us are still Catholic and some are not. That's always going to be a part of me though; little bits of it trickle into my work. Whether it's an embrace or a rejection, I'm not always sure, but I can't avoid it.

It is through Christianity that Judaism has really conquered the world. Christianity is the masterpiece of Judaism.

Some of the greatest achievements ever have been achieved as a result of the Church. The Catholic Church. I'm not Catholic but yeah, the Church, for instance, you take a walk through the Vatican, and to your right is the double helix staircase built, I think, in 1138 or something.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

The Church responds to antiquated social realities, and those realities remain much more current in Utah precisely because of the Church.

The Puritan has passed; the Catholic remains.

All over France, in every city there stand cathedrals like this one, triumphant monuments of the past. They tower over the homes of our people like mighty guardians, keeping alive the invincible faith of the Christian. Every arch, every column, every statue is a carved leaf out of our history, a book in stone, glorifying the spirit of France.

We would be much worse without Christianity; but we wouldn't know it.

Somehow Jesus's reputation has survived all the embarrassing things that Christians have done in his name.

If you have an ancestor who is a Benedictine monk, we would rather not know it.

We live in secular world now, but most of our art and culture is rooted in religion.

It's essential that we learn how to defend the Bible and the Christian faith for our sake and our children's. If we don't, the empty and obsolete churches in England will foreshadow the future in America.

Look at what Billy Graham has done, he's a legend. He would never tell you that, but look at the history, all the way back to the L.A. Crusades in the 50s, all around the world, starting a youth night in 94 that I got to be such a huge part of. This guy has changed the world with the gospel.

Christianity, with or without its whole apparatus of dogma, will endure in its essence for thousands of years after us; there will always be spiritually-minded people who will be ennobled by it, and some made great.

This Epistle, is therefore a legacy to the Christians of all ages.

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn.

In Denmark, the king's faith became the religion of the country, and we are still happy with that today.

I am humbled and deeply honored to have been asked to serve the congregants of Shearith Israel, a congregation with an incomparable history, where some of America's most distinguished rabbis have pastored and preached.

My great grandfather was the last practicing Jew in my family. He died in 1982.

This Christian poison hasn't stopped yet.

The Good of the People was a laudable enough goal, but in denying a man's soul, an enduring part of his being, Marxism stripped away the foundation of human dignity and individual value. It also cast aside the objective measure of justice and ethics which, he decided, was the principal legacy of religion to civilized life.