Religion Quotes · Page 290

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

— Charles Dickens

The spirit of the age is: Ask not what your country can do for you, demand it.

— Mark Steyn

“The gospel is only good news if it gets there on time.”

— Carl F. H. Henry

If your religion does not change you, then you should change your religion

— Elbert Hubbard

In revival, God is not concerned about filling empty churches, He is concerned about filling empty hearts.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“Everything that happens to us has been designed for our spiritual growth.”

— M. Scott Peck

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

— Barack Obama

Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!

— Choa Kok Sui

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature…

— Wilkie Collins

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our…

— William Booth

To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's…

— Joyce Meyer

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

— Martin McGuinness

Religion is the mortar that binds society together; the granite pedestal of liberty; the strong backbone of the social system.

— Thomas Guthrie

WHAT WE NEED IN AMERICA TODAY IS A VIGOROUS RETURN TO THE GOD OF OUR FATHERS AND A MOST VIGOROUS DEFENSE AGAINST…

— J. Edgar Hoover

“If what is soft wears down the hard, how much the more so shall the words of the Torah, which are as…

— Akiba Ben Joseph

All the world’s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But…

— Dalai Lama

“Can there be anything more stupendous than the [Hindu] conception that the universe has no beginning and no end, but passes everlastingly…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“When children are given spiritual guidance, they grow-up learning to know how to pray and praise God. Even though they might not…

— Ellen J. Barrier

“Wine, on the other hand, is like religion: it’s mysterious, sometimes literally opaque, and there are too many kinds of it. You…

— John Hodgman

“Life goes on, and people too. You don't need to serve them to make people love you. We don't need people in…

— Zineb SKARABI

“That’s why the Bible is called the Living Word. Fresh revelation comes with each reading, because the Holy Spirit gives you understanding…

— Angela C. Castillo

I understand that you take the Bible, as written in English, translated many many times over the last three millennia as to…

— Bill Nye

“We take a cavalier approach to Scripture at our own peril. If the scientific and historical accounts are true, then the commandments,…

— Craig Olson

The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool.

— C. S. Lewis

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

— Ellen Glasgow

What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.

— Kurt Vonnegut

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

— Leo Tolstoy

But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.

— John Chrysostom

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

— Johnny Cash

Worry is spiritual nearsightedness, a fumbling way of looking at little things, and of magnifying their value.

— Anna Robertson Brown Lindsay

“Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam!”

— Malala Yousafzai

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

— Jonathan Sacks

In my work, I attempt to deal with the Bible as I would deal with any work of literature.

— Hershel Shanks

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

— Anonymous

Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Periodic fasting can help clear up the mind and strengthen the body and the spirit.

— Ezra Taft Benson

“May the life I live speak for me, not my religion or denomination title.”

— Dee Dee M. Scott

It is not religion but revolution which is the opium of the people.

— Simone Weil