Religion Quotes · Page 330

the restricting of intellectual and spiritual needs to the mania of progress

— Robert Musil

“Whoever said that one cannot be moral without being religious never had morals in in the first place.”

— J.Adam Snyder

I absolutely do not divide people into any religions, creeds, political views.

— Oleksandr Usyk

Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers

— George Bernard Shaw

The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit.

— Richard Pryor

Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions.

— Gregory Bateson

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

— Karl Marx

Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

— Jessica Hahn

I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Developing a Christian worldview means submitting our entire self to God, in an act of devotion and service to Him.

— Nancy Pearcey

Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23:1, if your testicles are crushed…

— Donald Morgan

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and…

— Pope Francis

“Nothing but ambition, nothing but the desire to get on, that's all there is in his soul," she thought; "as for these…

— Leo Tolstoy

Challenges that tax our faith are usually opportunities to stretch and strengthen our faith by finding out if we really believe the…

— Sheri L. Dew

“The best ‘apologia’ (defense) of Jesus Following is your life ...not talking religion!” http://diigo.com/0odk2 ~ gfp '42©”

— Gary F. Patton

I decided to take God and organized religion seriously, and to reject the secular life which in my teens had looked attractive…

— Luke Ford

If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany…

— Pope Francis

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

“Shannon had believed guns were the worst thing man ever had created. Next to religion. Shannon loved God, but she hated religion.…

— Willow Rose

Obviously all religions get corrupted by man. The initial ideas are interesting but once they get organized they seem to become about…

— Matt Dillon

“You love somebody. Do you? What is love? You think you have everything, but you don’t have anything. You have to have…

— Greg Sestero

On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of…

— Sam Harris

I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is…

— Brian Wilson

The only religion that can satisfy today's ideal is a religion that will give consecration to life, and direction to human endeavor,…

— Sterling M. McMurrin

Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.

— Herman Wouk

“We're all a blemished spirit full of censurable faults”

— Netiera Danise

My religion means so much to me and to my career. It helps me so much.

— Shkodran Mustafi

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.

— Mencius

The very scary thing about religion, to me, is that people actually believe God is who they think He is.

— Donald Miller

“By the time I turned fifteen, Communism had become my religion.”

— Ella Leya

“With his genius, Michelangelo built many bridges of the spirit.”

— Benjamin Blech

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

— Richard Brautigan

I personally have always found the Unitarian faith a source of comfort and help in my daily life.

— Leverett Saltonstall

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

— Mika

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

— Anonymous

Atheism, a religion dedicated to its own sense of smug superiority.

— Stephen Colbert

We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us.

— Marianne Williamson

Religion should not only comfort us when we are disturbed; it should also disturb us when we are comfortable.

— Sidney Greenberg

Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism and militarism are inherently patriarchal and hierarchical.

— Mona Eltahawy

“No one who believes that Jesus died for man can doubt the validity and efficacy of vicarious ministration.”

— JAMES TALMAGE