Religion Quotes · Page 266

Stop going to church everywhere and start belonging to church somewhere.

— Matt Chandler

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

— Mahatma Gandhi

State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.

— Adam Cohen

A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and to degrade religion.

— Hugo Black

Religion is the human response to being alive and having to die.

— Anonymous

Faith is the act of seeing beyond the religion of possibility of the senses, the mind and the intelligence.

— Radhanath Swami

Revolt against religion and you will liberate your sexual energy from the clerical clutches.

— Anonymous

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

— Ziggy Marley

I always say I'm Catholic - but a cultural Catholic. I wouldn't say I'm a spiritual person, although I pray every day.

— Kiki Smith

Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.

— Mason Cooley

“Gordon W. Allport’s book, The Individual and His Religion: “The neurotic who learns to laugh at himself may be on the way…

— Viktor E. Frankl

When you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God. Well, he's the only free psychiatrist that's known…

— Stevie Wonder

“Many modern Christians will take the best programs from every church while committing to no church. They even have a name for…

— Mark Driscoll

“In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that…

— Steve Maraboli

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and…

— Jerry Falwell

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap…

— Francis Collins

“Religion deals with the highest levels of meaning. As a result, it can interpret each life or each event in a context…

— Roy F. Baumeister

I affirm my faith when I'm asked about it. But I always try to do so in a way that communicates absolute…

— Al Gore

[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values…

— Ronald Reagan

Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignorance, they suffer not…

— William of Conches

Why would anyone walk through life satisfied with the light from the candle of their own understanding when, by reaching out to…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“Now the history of philosophy shows that religious belief which is primarily mystical may very well be compatible with a pronounced sense…

— Max Weber

President Reagan fueled the spirit of America. His smile, his optimism, his total belief in the ultimate triumph of democracy and freedom,…

— Colin Powell

“Here he seeks out his last master: he wants to fight him and his last god; for ultimate victory he wants to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our religious understanding and beliefs should evolve just like everything else.

— James Cook

Yall the reason for a lot of my devotion, you know I spend money because spending time is hopeless.

— Drake

“You cannot sensibly expect a starving 'God-fearing' man to honor the 8th commandment.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.”

— Grant Von Harrison

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light.

— George Washington

When kings interfere in matters of religion, they enslave instead of protecting it.

— Francois Fenelon

“You will never know how to tarnish the devotion Of my passion for the beauty of women, that my verse acclaims”

— Renée Vivien

“grace is not license to commit a sin but it is a responsibility that we ought to God.”

— darwin araman ergina

“That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”

— C.S. Lewis

“To practice the religion of the Soul that is Self religion.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Don't come to church for an emotional experience. Come to church for the truth.

— Robert Godfrey

The only rich person is a person who is rich in spirit. I have no money deposit. I have only beauty deposit.

— Imelda Marcos

Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science.

— Alfred North Whitehead

He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well: What they that choose their God do, who can tell?

— Sir Fulke Greville

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

— Pierre de Coubertin

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

— Joseph Campbell