Religion Quotes · Page 247

If a religion does not teach love, respect, and regard for others, it cannot be the religion of humanity.

— Swami Muktananda

“When doubt comes knocking on your door, answer with faith.”

— Joyce Meyer

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

— A. J. Jacobs

The therapeutic concerns of the culture too often set the agenda for evangelical preaching.

— Albert Mohler

How should I know anything about another world when I know so little of this?

— Confucius

The spirit of science is not to prejudge, but to give any honest query a fair shake.

— Allen Wheelis

Keep your spirits up. Think in harmony. Be agreeable. Do all that, & the God of love & peace will be with you.

— Anonymous

Everyone on earth is cursed but Jesus came for our redemption.

— Justiceogali

I'm a Holy Spirit maniac, yeah. When I say maniac, to me, a maniac is a person that goes around telling you…

— Sinead O'Connor

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and…

— H. G. Wells

More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than…

— Jeanette Winterson

You don't bring glory or pleasure to God by hiding your abilities or by trying to be someone else. You only bring…

— Rick Warren

EVANGELIST, n. A bearer of good tidings, particularly (in a religious sense) such as assure us of our own salvation and the…

— Ambrose Bierce

It's not about which religion is the right religion, but the fact that you accept there is a higher power much greater…

— Heaven

I have everything in the world that is necessary to happiness--good faith, good friends, and all the work I can possibly do.

— Anna Howard Shaw

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible,…

— Shane Claiborne

“She used religion as a therapy for the ills of the world and herself, and she changed the religion to fit the…

— John Steinbeck

Love is faith's flower, hope is its stem. Grace comes into us by faith, like water through the roots of a tree.…

— Peter Kreeft

“Real conversion is an experience of repentance and forgiveness before God. It is not merely praying a prayer, joining a Christian church,…

— R.C. Sproul

“In a civilization that glorifies success and happiness and is blind to the sufferings of others, people’s eyes can be opened to…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“Religion waited for man to evolve. It waited an eternity like a desolate lover awaiting its unborn soulmate. When man was able…

— C.J. Anderson

I'm a pretty solid Christian. But even as an altar boy, I was always asking the bigger questions--you know: if God is,…

— Tim Allen

“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,…

— Christopher Hitchens

As you know, the separation of church and state is not subject to discussion or alteration. Under our Constitution no church or…

— Richard M. Nixon

“Putting atheism up as a legitimate parallel to religion takes mental gymnastics of Olympian proportions.”

— Al Stefanelli

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

— Austin O'Malley

Scripture is not inerrant; believers are called to interpret biblical texts in light of tradition and reason.

— Jon Meacham

The external forces conceal from the eyes the deep meaning of existence; True faith resides in the heart.

— Kabir

I love Slipknot. But then I like Jao Gilberto... It's the spirit that comes through in music.

— Robert Palmer

We're big fans of the idea that faith without works is dead.

— John Tesh

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Christians are defined not by our heritage, but by our mission; not by our blood, but by His.

— Mark Dever

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing.

— Thomas Hobbes

We have in England a particular bashfulness in every thing that regards religion.

— Joseph Addison

Change is not always progress... A fever of newness has everywhere been confused with the spirit of progress.

— Henry Ford

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

— Madame de Stael

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

— Carol P. Christ

People who walk in audacious faith don't stop and pray. Audacious faith teaches us to push and pray.

— Steven Furtick

We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.

— Christine Caine