Religion Quotes · Page 277

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

“YOU CLAWED YOUR WAY BACK FROM THE ABYSS. YOU SOUGHT TO REFORGE YOUR SPIRIT ON THE ANVIL OF YOUR WILL.”

— Phil Tucker

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

— May Sarton

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

— Rajneesh

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

— Riccardo Tisci

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

What has been the effect of religious coercion? To make half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

— Thomas Jefferson

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well -…

— Paul Bloom

“Love is the battlefield, those who want true love has to fight for it. Beyond differences created by humans such as caste,…

— Santosh Kalwar

I don't want to see God or Jesus when I lay on my death bed. I want a delicious meal to be…

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Religion as a vital issue is dead except on paper, and whatever beauty-baiting the future may witness will be the work of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Religion is very important to me. One of my aims is to try to show that you can have faith and play…

— Moeen Ali

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that…

— Joan D. Chittister

“Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of…

— Steve Maraboli

“Naive people tend to generalize people as—-good, bad, kind, or evil based on their actions. However, even the smartest person in the…

— Shannon L. Alder

“...While grace does do away with the need for good works, it’s grace which also makes good works truly possible. If good…

— David Clark

I'm not trying to make political statements ,but theological statements. How can religion get itself so identified with one political party, exclusionary…

— Richard Rohr

It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Shamanism is not some obscure concern of cultural anthropologists. Shamanism is how religion was practiced for its first million years. Up until…

— Terence McKenna

Christmas is a Christian holiday, and any self-respecting person of another religion should not celebrate a holiday that they don't believe in.…

— Monica Johnson

“Objects that don't exist don't exist. If we were to imagine such a thing as an object that didn't exist, it would…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“Geologists search for the meaning to be read into the piled-up strata of the earth much as a historian might turn the…

— Henry Eyring

“I believe, I have faith, I trust, In me, In you, In us.”

— Truth Devour

Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.

— Oscar Wilde

“religion arises from culture; spirituality arises from biology.”

— George E. Vaillant

Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice

— Kripalvananda

Anthroposophie is not a religion but a tool for understanding of religions.

— Rudolf Steiner

I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

— Jimmy Buffett

“Faith is something that we hold on, despite of the fact that there is impossibilities.”

— Lynzhkhie

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

True piety for the universe but no time for religions made for man's convenience.

— Baruch Spinoza

There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.

— George H Morrison

“Having faith is believing in something you just know ain't true.”

— Mark Twain

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw

I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous.

— Sonia Sotomayor

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

— Benjamin Carson

I've grown up having faith in youth because without that there is no future in football.

— Mike Phelan

The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around.

— Herb Caen