More religion quotes of the year

Posted by religion
on December 27, 2008M at 12:28 pm

georgewbush.jpg There were so many interesting religion quotes for 2008, that I couldn’t get them all in today’s newspaper.

Here, I have included more quotes culled from those compiled throughout the year by the Religion News Service.

I keep a file of the quotes and then pick my favorites or those I think are the most interesting and provocative to share with readers.

Many of these quotes prove once again that faith and religion have become more prominent than ever in today’s culture:

  

1. “I would advise politicians, however, to be careful about faith in the public arena …. They should recognize — at least I have recognized that I am a lowly sinner seeking redemption and therefore have been very careful about saying … if you don’t accept what I believe, you’re a bad person.” — President George W. Bush, in an interview with StoryCorps’ National Day of Listening project.

 

2.    “ … I had missed an opportunity … to clearly assert the following: Nonbelievers have just as great a stake as believers in defending religious liberty. If a society takes it upon itself to prescribe and proscribe certain streams of belief — to prohibit certain less-favored strains of conscience — it may be the nonbeliever who is among the first to be condemned.” — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, speaking at a May 8 dinner in

New York where he was honored by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. He was referring to the speech he gave on religious liberty during his recent presidential campaign.

 

3.   “This studio, I thought of it as the ‘

church of

Tim.’ He was also the great uber priest. I would actually get a pass from my own pastor not to go to church on Sundays if I was going to be on ‘Meet the Press.’” —

Washington journalist Gwen Ifill, a regular on “Meet the Press,” on the death of the show’s host Tim Russert, who died June 13.

 

4.  “I can see by the language he uses why people think he could be the antichrist, but from my reading of Scripture, he doesn’t meet the criteria. There is no indication in the Bible that the antichrist will be an American.” — “Left Behind” co-author Tim LaHaye, on whether presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama is the antichrist.

 

5. “(God) owns everything; He owns the gas. All we to do is ask, and we shall receive.” — Seventh-day Adventist Rocky Twyman of Rockville, Md., explaining why he holds vigils to pray for lower fuel prices.

 

6.   “We demand the Americans leave us alone and stop creating religious controversies. First, they shot the Quran, and now they come to proselytize inside Fallujah.” — Mohammed Amin Abdel-Hadi, leader of the Sunni Endowment in Fallujah, Iraq, who accused

U.S. troops of acting like Christian missionaries.

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6.     7.  “I would love to be fair for everyone. But sooner or later, if they can see through me God, that’s what I want to try to do. I’m not God, and I can’t drive them to God, but I can pray for them.” —

U.S. Olympic archery coach Kisik Lee responding to charges that he tried to impose his faith on his team.

 

8. “In my most difficult moments it feels as if, instead of leaving the 99 sheep in search of the one, my chief pastor and shepherd, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has cut me out of the herd.” — New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who is openly gay, about being uninvited to the Lambeth Conference, a once-a-decade meeting in

England of all Anglican bishops.

 

Carla Hinton

Religion Editor

 



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