Religion Quotes · Page 267

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.

— Stephen Batchelor

Faith is having a positive attitude about what you can do and not worrying at all about what you can't do.

— Joyce Meyer

“Religion must use law to empower itself and control the people who they need in order to survive.”

— William P. Young

Let us start a new religion with one commandment, "Enjoy thyself.

— Israel Zangwill

There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers.

— Charles Spurgeon

Anyway, I try to be a good guy. I try to tell the truth, but I'm not religious.

— William H. Macy

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

It is the intense spirituality of India, and not any great political structure or social organisation that it has developed, that has…

— Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

“Gnosticism may rightly be described as an alien religion in that it explores mankind’s cosmic alienation; the belief that this is not…

— Gordon White

“Therefore I will not  l restrain my mouth;         I will speak in the anguish of my spirit;         I will  m complain in  n the bitterness…

— Anonymous

What is Christian in art does not lie in the theme but in the spirit of it, in its wisdom and the…

— Hans Rookmaaker

I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation or imposed…

— John F. Kennedy

“Here is a very simple and trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: If it's not about Christ, it's not Christianity.”

— D.R. Silva

“You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you…

— Eden Phillpotts

This mirror inside me shows. I can’t say what, but I can’t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit.…

— Rumi

We have been saying, Lucy, that 'tis the strangest thing in the world people should quarrel about religion, since we undoubtedly all…

— Frances Brooke

Millennials, in particular, consider themselves to be spiritual, but they're not necessarily going to anybody's church. It's not like the world is…

— Adam Frank

“Growth continues through spending intentional time with Him through prayer and looking into His Word.  It is strengthened through relationships with other…

— John Stange

I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion…

— Malcolm X

Push hard to get better, become smarter, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotional intelligence,…

— Rob Brezsny

All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and…

— Max Muller

A smile flitted across War's mouth, hidden by her helmet. She had little patience for religion (although she approved heartily of the…

— Jackie Morse Kessler

Boys need to learn the value of spiritual solitude. For the soul to grow, it needs those moments of no-stimulation, of wakeful…

— Michael Gurian

The resurrection confronts our world with wonder, mystery, and miracles.

— Rob Bell

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

— Joseph Joubert

Tell me what time you spend alone with God... and I'll tell you how spiritual you are.

— Leonard Ravenhill

We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.

— Bill McKibben

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

— John Lennon

Humanity is made up of love, peace, benevolence, sympathy, giving, faith and respect.

— Sfiso MaAphula Ngema

He who doesn't have the spirit of his time, has all its misery.

— Voltaire

You'll never get me to speak religion. You'll never get me to speak politics.

— Joe Budden

I think it's about time we gave up religion and got back to God.

— Lenny Bruce

The Lord did not tell us to build beautiful churches, but to evangelize the world

— Oswald J. Smith

Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable

— Joseph Joubert

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

— Anonymous

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

— C. S. Lewis

“The giant stop in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part…

— Beth Moore

You don't have to believe, support, or agree with a religion we just ask that you respect it.

— Mario Tomasello