Religion Quotes · Page 255

I realize I'm a free spirit. I like to be happy. I have to have more control of my happiness.

— Chamique Holdsclaw

It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.

— Timothy Keller

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The obsession with moderation is the spirit of castrated narrow-mindedness.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.”

— Larry Eskridge

Spirits want to be heard. That's why they're not at rest.

— Zak Bagans

Face the new religion, everybody's sitting around watching television.

— The Clash

Of a very religious linebacker: He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

— Sammy Baugh

“Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.”

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake…

— Benjamin Franklin

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without…

— Damian Loeb

“...I like the way Chee kept God magical, sorta like Santa Claus when you're a kid. More priests should take this approach,…

— Matthew Quick

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

— Van Jones

At home we didnt talk about religion. So gradually the question faded away by itself and disappeared from the agenda. When I…

— Sergei Prokofiev

“The problem is not that people are called to die to their sin, but rather that too many Christians are lined up…

— Jamie Arpin-Ricci

The Church's mission is to spread hope "contagiously" among all peoples... It is only in this mission that the true journey of…

— Pope Benedict XVI

In these respects we differ from the Christian world, for our religion will not clash with or contradict the facts of science…

— Brigham Young

“Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And so the mind or spirit is the great opportunist, itself impossible to pin down, take hold of, anywhere; one is tempted…

— Robert Musil

Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the…

— Douglas Coupland

“When I think of the causes for which people more commonly give up their lives-nationalism, religion, ethnicity-it seems to me that a…

— Anne Fadiman

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written;…

— Anonymous

“You they served me up the sun and the moon, beautiful works of Yours, but works of Yours all the same and…

— Augustine of Hippo

I do feel we live through what I like to call The 2nd Renaissance, but although I foresee a widespread return to…

— Varg Vikernes

The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint

— William Wilberforce

I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.

— Charlie Munger

If Jesus Christ had run as an independent, Rick Perry would have beat him.

— Kinky Friedman

If the vast and the spiritual are omitted, so are the practical and the moral.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

— Brandon Sanderson

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul.

— Ray Davies

Love, like a chicken salad or restaurant hash, must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

— Helen Rowland

I've decided to retreat to the spirit world where I feel appreciated and understood.

— Dov Davidoff

It is utterly astonishing how ordinary a book can be and still be thought the product of omniscience.

— Sam Harris

“The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING.”

— A.W. Tozer

Reader, you forget that economics precedes religion; worship grew out of eating, not the other way around.

— Anne Roiphe

We need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

— Sharron Angle

The life of prayer is just love to God, and the custom of being ever with Him.

— Teresa of Avila

Our culture is superior because our religion is christianity.

— Kevin Ngoge Nyabuto

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects in the phenomenal world.

— William James

The greatest spiritual blessing comes from helping another.

— David O. McKay