Religion Quotes · Page 261

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

— Mitt Romney

“Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which it soars to the truth.”

— Pope John Paul II

Do what is healing to your spirit and without effort you will bring the world healing in return.

— Alan Cohen

Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.

— Albert Einstein

I'll put a dot on your head like its part of your religion.

— Lloyd Banks

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands.

— Max Anders

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

— John Trudell

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

— Andrew Jackson

Prayer is a method practised from ancient days, so it's very important for us to maintain a spiritual connection, something that people,…

— Anthony Joshua

Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven says. Even on a symbolic lovel, that's creation…

— Yann Martel

I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees…

— Mahatma Gandhi

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of audacity. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but identifying them.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of…

— Blaise Pascal

“To perform one’s duty is not dharma. To not perform one’s duty is a crime. People do carry out their duties anyway,…

— Dada Bhagwan

I have lived long enough to know what I did not at one time believe--that no society can be upheld in happiness…

— Pierre-Simon Laplace

“Even in its canonical form a biblical document may be better understood if account be taken of successive stages in its composition.…

— F.F. Bruce

“It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Pretending that the world’s religions are the same does not make our world safer. Like all forms of ignorance, it makes our…

— Stephen Prothero

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that…

— Erich Fromm

The genuinely spiritual person is one who has lost all desire to be anyone but exactly who he is, without labels and…

— Vernon Howard

“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of…

— Namsoon Kang

Good-nature is that benevolent and amiable temper of mind which disposes us to feel the misfortunes and enjoy the happiness of others,…

— Henry Fielding

“As a preacher myself, let me be blunt here. Preaching itself can easily become just a subtle form of entertainment. When I…

— Jim Cymbala

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but…

— John Quincy Adams

Religion is not a melancholy, the spirit of God is not a damper.

— John Donne

My parents instilled something greater than myself. They instilled faith in me.

— Johnathon Schaech

The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.

— Will Durant

“To find common ground you must be willing to search for it.”

— Carmine Savastano

I got none. I mean, I have no religion. I like the quote unquote 'Virgin Mary,' but no Catholicism.

— Melissa Leo

Leisure, some degree of it, is necessary to the health of every man's spirit.

— Harriet Martineau

American churches work very hard at reaching out to people to bring them in.

— Rodney Stark

Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith.

— Isaac Asimov

I have lost the consolation of faith/ though not the ambition to worship

— Forrest Gander

Spiritual growth is neither a function of time or learning, but it is a function of obedience.

— John Bevere

Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision.

— William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

The Resurrection of Christ is the Amen of all His Promises.

— Kevin Condron Kenites

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

— Saint Augustine

Faith is stepping out on nothing and landing on something.

— Cornel West

“Truth is the spirit of all that is good and worthy through loving.”

— Bryant McGill

In no instance have... the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

— James Madison