Religion Quotes · Page 289

I am trying to understand what it means to be a Christian without being religious.

— John Shelby Spong

Increasingly, Christianity is the object of scorn and ridicule.

— David R. Mains

I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me.

— Lil Wayne

Once let good faith be abandoned, and all social existence would perish.

— Livy

Asceticism without religion is just another way of cultivating peculiar sensations.

— Mason Cooley

A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.

— John Wesley

“Maybe it's because spiritual growth and vibrant faith in God don't happen in isolation, but under pressure.”

— Lynn Austin

“Arts without a spiritual relative is like frying buns with water.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I've never been particularly religious, but I have recently acknowledged the universe and it's crazy powers, and that will probably fluctuate for…

— Cameron Boyce

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human…

— Dinaw Mengestu

“Many faith communities have become little more than gatherings of isolated individuals, while the number of online communities continues to grow.”

— Mike Breen

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't…

— Joey Skaggs

If a religious principle is worth anything, it applies to a million of human beings as truly as to one; and the…

— Henry Parry Liddon

All thinking of the religious man is etymological, a reduction of all concepts to the original intuition, to the characteristic.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team.

— Eduardo Galeano

“Followers of Christ will not exhibit characteristics that are cheap and selfish, but in word, spirit, and action they will reveal the…

— Ellen G. White

I'm reading the Gospels at the moment and I can find no evidence of the kind of Christ people seem to have…

— Franco Zeffirelli

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. They forget, perhaps, that his religion…

— Charles Alexander Eastman

“It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a…

— John F. MacArthur Jr

I consider myself to be blessed. I have a family that is a mix of different religions and different ethnicities. I hope…

— Rima Fakih

“To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we have to have three spaces opened up within us - and all at the same…

— Richard Rohr

We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing…

— John Eldredge

“We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,’…

— Jonathan Talat Phillips

Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Where there is no longer any opportunity for doubt, there is no opportunity for faith either.”

— Philip Yancey

I always had faith in myself, otherwise I wouldn't be in the sport.

— Luke Campbell

Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.

— George Santayana

Congress started mixing politics with religion. BJP perfected it.

— Pinarayi Vijayan

You want something? Go get it with single-minded devotion.

— Reggie Lee

There's always the threat of "spiritual one-up-manship" that we must avoid.

— Sam Storms

“If we study the Holy Scripture, the spirit shall minister to us the depths of truth of GOD.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance.

— Aldous Huxley

Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime.

— Adriana Trigiani

The 'renewed' mind is the canvas on which the Spirit of God can paint.

— Bill Johnson

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

— Oscar Wilde

If you can get a spiritual connection without going to church, why go to church?.

— Brian Kenny

“This continued a negotiation in the spirit of sinking hoods and strange smiles, all that elite malarkey.”

— Steve Aylett

“The divine spirit of personal power should inspired you to pursue your dreams. Anything is possible.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A Bible reading laity is a nation's surest defence against error.

— J. C. Ryle

“The "covenant" language in the Bible is not cold, legal language, but relational language.”

— Mark Dever