Religion Quotes · Page 276

“The corrupt are into rituals, whereas the virtuous are spiritual.”

— Abhaidev

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality.”

— Bryant McGill

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

— Max Planck

“Thus, faith in Christ is not a onetime event; we must live by faith each day.”

— Derek W.H. Thomas

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

— James A. Michener

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

— Charles Spurgeon

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

— H. L. Mencken

Spiritual leaders are not made by man, nor any combination of men. Neither conferences, nor synods, nor councils can make them, but…

— Samuel Logan Brengle

“Faith serves as a spur to practice; practice leads to experiential understanding; and when one’s understanding matures, it blossoms in full realization.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Paul started out as an outsider to the apostolic band and originally opposed rather than supported their movement.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

There can be no fanatics in the cause of genuine liberty. Fanaticism is excessive zeal. There may be, and have been fanatics…

— Thaddeus Stevens

We mustn't be content to just sit around pointing out the errors in others; we actually need to be sharing the gospel…

— Mark Dever

I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel…

— John Quincy Adams

I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.

— Kirk Cameron

The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code…

— Brennan Manning

“Westerners view the physical world as the operative reality and the unseen, nonphysical world as an abstraction (comforting or not, depending upon…

— Thomas Hoover

“You want me, Charlie?” Josie’s voice was strong with emotion. “Yes, yes Josie I do.” “Well, brother I come with a price.…

— Caroline Walken

“The feeling against the Mormons as expressed by the San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin was: The blood of American citizens cries for…

— Juanita Brooks

The concern for world evangelization is not something tacked on to a man's personal Christianity, which he may take or leave as…

— James Stuart Stewart

“Know that God loves you very, very much. And remind others that they are loved too. If they don’t want to hear…

— Sean Patrick Brennan

“Love and faith are psychic; related to the spiritual side of man. Sex is purely biological, and related only to the physical.…

— Napoleon Hill

“A repentant spirit is part of belonging to God but it always happens after God makes the first move towards us. This…

— Brenda Seefeldt Amodea

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

— Beryl Bender Birch

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

— Anonymous

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

— Susan Jacoby

“To separate between religion and metaphysics, however often it may have been attempted, is impossible”

— Herman Bavinck

You can't meet Jesus and not change. If you haven't changed, you haven't met the real Jesus.

— Mark Driscoll

“Fortunately or unfortunately, the greatest authority on matters of life is life itself.”

— Raheel Farooq

Only time will tell but faith and hope is what I'm looking for.

— Julie Yang

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

— Edward Schillebeeckx

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

— Mark McKinnon

This is a war against terrorists. Not a war against a religion, but a war against terrorists.

— Gordon England

The province of faith begins where probabilities cease and sight and sense fail.

— George Muller

“My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight.”

— CS Lewis

The spirits perverse with easy intercourse pass to and fro, to tempt or punish mortals.

— John Milton

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

— Mark Twain

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.

— Xu Zhimo

Whenever you're specific with ethnicity or religion, people find reason to take offence.

— Ethan Coen