Religion Quotes · Page 308

I think the only kind of acceptable evangelization is the evangelization of good example.

— Andrew Greeley

“Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.”

— Michael Drake

Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

— Wen Jiabao

“Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular Americans.”

— Dennis Prager

“To have faith in God, you must also have faith in His timing…”

— Brandi N. Jefferson-Motley

“Knowledge is a Religion. It is because of knowledge where the Path to God is shown.”

— Asherry Magalla

“cleave not to faith when faith brings blood." - Rev. John Hale”

— Arthur Miller

A God made by man undoubtedly has need of man to make himself known to man.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective…

— Dave Smalley

“Everything great in the world is done by neurotics; they alone founded our religions and created our masterpieces.”

— Marcel Proust

I want to find a language that transforms language itself into steel for the spirit--a language to use against these sparkling insects,…

— Mahmoud Darwish

“Reflect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything.”

— Seneca

A shepherd, in whom the spirit of God works, is more highly esteemed before God than the wisest and most potent in…

— Jakob Bohme

“It is this spirit of godliness that will bring forth the attributes, the principles and the life style of godliness.”

— Sunday Adelaja

It's that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what's deep down in you, that's really going to get you anywhere…

— Christina Tosi

Goal' is a human drama. It is a triumph of human spirit where football is the device through which the characters actualise…

— Vivek Agnihotri

Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half…

— Joseph Campbell

Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw…

— Martin Luther

Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal…

— Robert Neelly Bellah

“Contrast toxic religion with the pure gospel. Religion is all about what I do. The gospel is all about what Jesus has…

— Craig Groeschel

Under our institutions the only way to perfect the Government is to perfect the individual citizen. It is necessary to reach the…

— Calvin Coolidge

I have a sense of them being Easter religions, for some reason. Christianity, of course, is a mystery religion, too, and I…

— Quentin S. Crisp

If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also…

— Eugene H. Peterson

The essence of all religions is love, compassion and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or…

— Dalai Lama

To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.

— Gabrielle Bernstein

The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The more spiritually aware you become the more you will focus on your own self and less on others.”

— Bryant McGill

I can’t make the Bible come alive for anyone. The Bible is already alive. It makes me come alive.

— R. C. Sproul

“gnostics celebrated as proof of spiritual maturity, the orthodox denounced as “deviation”

— Elaine Pagels

I believe deeply that we must find, all of us together, a new spirituality.

— Dalai Lama

If your Christianity depends upon a pastor's preaching, then you're a long way from being where you should be.

— Anonymous

Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Jesus has not given us options to consider. He has given us commands to obey.

— David Platt

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

— Jon Stewart

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite.

— Andy Stanley

“The Bible is God's law-word which must govern every sphere of life and thought.”

— R.J. Rushdoony

Christians aren't finished products. We're God's sons and daughters in process.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

— Auguste Comte

“Education and science is an anathema for all religion.”

— Stefan Vucak