Religion Quotes · Page 256

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

— E. O. Wilson

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

— Martyn

Begin to break limitation in your home, business, career and spiritual life, in Jesus’ name!

— T. B. Joshua

Christianity is a faith in which God sent his Son to die for you.

— John Ashcroft

Religious freedom sits at the core of who we are as Americans.

— Mikie Sherrill

I will not say nothing. I will defend my church and my religion when it is insulted and spit on.

— James Joyce

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].

— Thomas Jefferson

Obedience is an act of faith; disobedience is the result of unbelief.

— Edwin Louis Cole

“When people confront the past—their sins, wounds, and curses—they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance…

— Chris Hodges

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

— Richard Rohr

“You were the one who threatened us with an Inquisitor," the Bishop reminded him. With a smile. The Speaker's smile was just…

— Orson Scott Card

So much of religion is like, 'Well if you were praying about it, if you were good with God, that would fix…

— Taylor Tomlinson

Liberalism is a force truly of the spirit proceeding from the deep realization that economic freedom cannot be sacrificed if political freedom…

— Herbert Hoover

When the concept of human spirit is understood as the mode of consciousness in which the individual feels connected to the Cosmos…

— Fritjof Capra

To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The idea that a good God would send people to a burning hell is utterly damnable to me - the raving of…

— Luther Burbank

So often people will say that I converted to the Catholic religion. This is false. Although I was raised as a Protestant,…

— Dave Brubeck

... the passion for popularity brings such injury upon those it masters that it shipwrecks faith itself. Our Lord confirms this when…

— Gregory Palamas

Most of the founding fathers, sympathetic with and influenced by the European Enlightenment, saw religion - natural religion, that is - as…

— Edwin Gaustad

“Either Christ must live and the Law perish, or the Law remains and Christ must perish; Christ and the Law cannot dwell…

— Martin Luther

We must not miss what this [Christ's once for all death on the cross] implies. It means that no religious observance or…

— Ritu Ghatourey

“They tell you: Follow your dreams. Listen to your spirit. Change the world. Make your mark. Find your inner voice and make…

— Shonda Rhimes

“I'm not particularly in favor of doctrine or creed, ordination, the elevation of holy texts, the institution of church, or, for that…

— Elizabeth J. Andrew

“When church leaders make decisions driven by fear of man, the true church disappears. The truth is frequently unpopular, and standing up…

— Mike McKinley

“a religion of human goodness will never sustain a people in times of disaster and threat.”

— Michael S. Horton

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

— Sigmund Freud

Hopefully I can be a good light in the hockey world and promote faith as something that's really real.

— Mike Fisher

Diversity of thought and culture and religion and ideas has been the strength of America.

— Gary Locke

I have seldom met an intelligent person whose views were not narrowed and distorted by religion.

— Anonymous

I believe that freedom of speech and freedom of religion go hand-in-hand in America.

— Kirk Cameron

“spiritual vampires out there and those are people who will take and take and never give back.”

— Lee Vickers

Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns

— Charles Simeon

“government shouldn’t be in the business of imposing someone else’s dubious religious code on you.”

— Jaclyn Friedman

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

— Alison Bechdel

My religion is humanitarianism , which is the basis of every religion in the world.

— Abdul Sattar Edhi

The history of missions is the history of answered prayer.

— Anonymous

Culturally Jewish, I was - and am - proud of my heritage, but don't practice religion.

— Gabe Kapler

The First Amendment was written by the Founders to protect the free exercise of Christianity.

— Bryan Fischer

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe.

— Mitch Albom

“I don't believe fundamentally in anything but the awakening of spirit, hope, and freedom.”

— Nicole Mones