Religion Quotes · Page 288

Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

— Joyce Meyer

A missional church is a church that must live the dialectic. It must stay in the journey.

— Alan Hirsch

While unbelief sees the difficulties, faith sees God between itself and them.

— Hudson Taylor

“Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures help us to build a strong trust in the truth of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I refused to change the way I practiced my faith or to let fear stop me from carrying out what I believed…

— Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

Patience with others needs love, with self gives hope and with God is faith.

— Dr Kurien S Thomas

“Faith is like automobile insurance. It need to be in place before there's a crisis.”

— Pamela Christian

Missionaries learn to manage situations and to rely on the Lord.

— Taysom Hill

Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old…

— Anonymous

Our spiritual life is a venture in the dark, between the soul and God, and no spiritual life is worth the name…

— Janet Erskine Stuart

Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

— Richard Rohr

The gospel is not a philosophy of repression, as so many regard it. It is a plan of freedom that gives discipline…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

I think that, in the '60s, you had lots of things going on in the culture which tended to decrease attraction to…

— Charles Murray

“hoped to prove that science and religion are two totally compatible fields—two different approaches to finding the same truth.”

— Dan Brown

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture,…

— Richard Rossi

Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method…

— Matthew Arnold

... the whole design of the gospel is to lead us onward and upward to greater achievement, even, eventually, to godhood. This…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“only while under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with the…

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my…

— Lex Luger

“we have few words for spiritual beyond those that refer back to a God. But not believing in a God is not…

— Marya Hornbacher

“As a grandiose self-deception, war is o’ the same magnitude as religion. We embrace war or religion - usually both at the…

— Tom Robbins

Harmonizing religion and science makes you seem like an open-minded and reasonable person, while asserting their incompatibility makes enemies and brands you…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“The idea that individuals should collect evidence and decide for themselves was out of the question. Once Falwell told his congregation that…

— Frances FitzGerald

Draw, if thou canst, the mystic line, Severing rightly his from thine, Which is human, which divine.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

All the destruction in Christian Europe has arisen from deism, which is natural religion.

— William Blake

“Doubts can lead to deeper faith by forcing us to look more closely at what we believe. And why.”

— Irene Hannon

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.

— Edmund Burke

“Noah demonstrated his faith and trust by obeying God and constructing an ocean-going haven from the rains.”

— Gabriel Ladokun

Music is the most spiritual language for the human being.

— Celedonio Romero

Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

— Lincoln Steffens

We are targeted when humor is not taken in the right spirit, but that's a part and parcel of this profession.

— Kiku Sharda

A definition of faith: everything will be alright by God's standards, maybe not ours, but by His for sure.

— Mark R. Woodward

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

— Laurens van der Post

Danger was the grindstone on which the swordsman whetted his spirit. Enemies were teachers in disguise.

— Eiji Yoshikawa

Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.

— Irvin D. Yalom

I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.

— Thomas Carlyle

Religion is many things, but one of them, surely, is a way for adults to indulge in uncritical hero worship.

— Robert Webb

“If people think honoring pastors means doing everything they say, why don't they honor Jesus the same way?”

— D.R. Silva

Interethnic and spiritual accord is our strategic resource, the basis for progress of our society and state.

— Nursultan Nazarbayev