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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith. -- Randall Terry
Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. -- Ronald Reagan
The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions. -- Naguib Mahfouz
Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations. -- Sivananda
Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes. -- Voltaire
The spiritual element, the really important part of religion, has no concern with Time and Space, temporary mundane laws, or conduct. -- Richard Le Gallienne
The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion. -- Pope Shenouda III
Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. -- Taslima Nasrin
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. -- Huston Smith
Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life. -- Pankaj Mishra
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. -- Frank Herbert
All thoughtful persons perceive that the ideas of the morality of sexual relations upheld by the religions and laws of the Western nations are in our time undergoing a radical transformation. -- Ellen Key
If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were. -- Denise Mina
The religion that has to be supported by law is without value, not only, but a fraud and a curse. The religious argument that has to be supported by a musket is hardly worth making. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Women become the objects of rules; they are repressed and lose their rights in the name of religion, or they lose their freedom in the name of tradition, while the state legitimates this foolishness with laws. -- Okky Madasari
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The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation of church and state so that the laws we live by our never guided by religious zeal. -- Roxane Gay
We're a Muslim family, but we're also very cultured and we have a mixture of different religions. For example, my brother-in-law is Catholic, and my sister converted and my nephews are baptized. I have an uncle who just graduated and currently he's a priest. -- Rima Fakih
At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion and who appeared equals under the protection of the same gods. For the members of all other cults, there was neither law nor mercy. -- Leon Bourgeois
Judaism was not a religion but a law. -- Moses Mendelssohn
The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick. -- John Martel
The popish religion is now unknown to the law of this country. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. -- William Blake
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. -- James Madison
Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges. -- Thomas Jefferson
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion. -- John Adams
I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. -- Thomas Jefferson
The Law of God in the Christian religion is the schoolmaster that leads us to Christ. -- Randall Terry
Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. --
There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. -- Francis Bacon
I could not comprehend the justice of that law, or that religion, which upholds or recognizes the principle of slavery; -- Solomon Northup
We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never. -- Mack Sennett
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The only true order is founded on Biblical Law. All law is religious in nature, and every non-Biblical law-order represents an anti-Christian religion. -- R.J. Rushdoony
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. -- Thomas Paine
Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed. -- Albert Einstein
Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law. -- Lori Lipman Brown
Religion is neither a theology nor a theosophy; it is more than that, it is a discipline, a law, a yoke, an indissoluble engagement. -- Joseph Joubert
[Liberty] considers religion as the safeguard of morality, and morality as the best security of law and the surest pledge of the duration of freedom. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law -- Taslima Nasrin
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion. -- George Bernard Shaw
A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law -- Benjamin Franklin
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. -- Robert A. Heinlein
The sentiment of justice is so natural, and so universally acquired by all mankind, that it seems to be independent of all law, all party, all religion. -- Voltaire
Religion is never more tested than when our emotions are ablaze. At such a time, the timeless grandeur of the Law and its ethics stand at our mercy. -- Timothy Winter
Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience. -- James Madison
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution. -- Kenneth E. Boulding
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain; Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law. -- Joseph Story
Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity. -- Henry Adams
Education must remove hatred between the pilgrims on the various roads to God. There is only one God, one Goal, one Law, one Truth, one Religion and one Reason. -- Sathya Sai Baba
That is good. It is a law of nature. That is the way with all founders of religion. Without persecution superior ideas cannot penetrate into the heart of society. -- Swami Vivekananda

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