Religion Quotes · Page 286

Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Understanding sometimes is not enough to explain something. Only faith is sufficient.

— Robert Ley

My view is that organized religion is a very dangerous tool that's been misused by a lot of people.

— Stephen King

Religion has been an enormous multiplier of tribal suspicion and hatred.

— Christopher Hitchens

Religion is there to say, 'Hey, you don't have to worry - there's an afterlife.'

— Peter Greenaway

“Things one man took as chance, a man of faith took as a sign.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“humility comes before honor and a haughty spirit before a fall.”

— John Bunyan

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

— Joyce Meyer

Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who…

— Walter Savage Landor

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of…

— Benjamin Franklin

Theology is a part of our lives. It's unavoidable. A thoughtless theology guides our lives with just as much force as a…

— Dallas Willard

What God requires of us he himself works in us, or it is not done. He that commands faith, holiness, and love,…

— Matthew Henry

We all come to this planet as spiritual beings destined to experience a variety of challenges and situation in order to grow…

— James Van Praagh

“It’s describing the mystery of faith. I think it describes how difficult it is to believe in God’s presence even when we…

— Suzanne E. Anderson

“Your uniqueness is the highest gift of the existence. Spirituality is uncovering and blossoming that uniqueness.”

— Amit Ray

When religion is good, it will take care of itself. When it is not able to take care of itself, and God…

— Benjamin Franklin

We're in essence allowing our spirit to come to terms with all the conflicts that we build within ourselves. Disease is after…

— Maya Tiwari

“The desire for moments of transcendence and the work of bringing them into our experience—this is the heart of all religion, really.…

— John Cullinan

I'm a great admirer of secularism. At its best, I think it's one of the best things that we have. I don't…

— Marilynne Robinson

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity. The three qualities…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“[O]ur primary job as Christians is to love people, and we can't love from behind a barricade. But we have other God-given…

— Alisa Harris

“The capacity of a human mind to believe devoutly in what seems to me to be the highly improbable - from table…

— Robert A. Heinlein

The form of government which you admire, when its principles are pure is admirable indeed. It is productive of every Thing which…

— John Adams

God is a pure no-thing, concealed in now and here; the less you reach for him, the more he will appear.

— Angelus Silesius

“The departure of the church-going element had induced a more humanitarian atmosphere.”

— Dorothy L. Sayers

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

— Mariel Hemingway

“I believe if I Piss God off one more time. I'll be eligible to win a free Bible”

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

— Rich Mullins

Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.

— Anonymous

“well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago”

— Jon M. Sweeney

“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.”

— Darrel Ray

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

— Voltaire

Discipleship is a daily discipline; we follow Jesus a step at a time, a day at a time

— Warren W. Wiersbe

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

— Ted Haggard

“If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Religion must be considered vindicated in a certain way from the attacks of her critics.

— William James

“The “Art Nouveau” appeal of smoking: manufacture your own pneuma, spirit. “I’m alive.” “I’m decorative.”

— Susan Sontag

“If we study the Scriptures, we find the well of salvation.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Faith is a withholding of conclusion so that you allow what is to arise.

— Adyashanti