Religion Quotes · Page 361

“We may not play with the new theology even if we may think we can turn it to our advantage.”

— Francis Schaeffer

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.

— William F. Buckley, Jr

The decision violates both the letter and spirit of the law.

— Philip E. Berger

Do not read to satisfy curiosity or to pass the time, but study such things as move your heart to devotion.

— Thomas a Kempis

I know God is in charge. Not me, I'm nothing. I wouldn't be anything except for the power of the spirit of…

— Billy Graham

This mystical stream [contemplative prayer] is the Western bridge to Far Eastern spirituality.

— Tilden Edwards

On day one, the Church wasn't for church people because there weren't any church people.

— Andy Stanley

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.

— Suze Orman

The language of intrinsic human rights represented a significant advance beyond the previous language of world religions in terms of its universal…

— Immanuel Wallerstein

“The Bible is alive; it is our students who are dead and must be resurrected. Story stirs the sleeping; scripture raises the…

— Sarah Arthur

“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.”

— Cesar Nascimento

The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution…

— Zeina

“And as the most powerful forces of Nature are the invisible forces, so we find that the most powerful forces of man…

— Anonymous

[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread…

— Hugo Black

A hypocrite [is the one who] wants to impress others with an external facade of religious piety that he knows is devoid…

— Sam Storms

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

— Jim Butcher

“Even in my profession how little the art of reading has been studied! how little a clear manner, and good delivery, have…

— Jane Austen

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little…

— Pat Robertson

“Reform suggests that you have already been solidified into a self. You were not. You were barely fifteen. You learn that the…

— Addie Zierman

The Bible unites its interpreters as a shared focus of attention, but it does not demand consensus. On the contrary, it invites…

— Zygmunt Bauman

“One reader of an early draft of this chapter complained at this point, saying that by treating the hypothesis of God as…

— Daniel C. Dennett

“When we are born, we emerge into this world with new eyes and a spirit of wonder. Everything is a marvel to…

— Cassandra Blizzard

“to some parts of biblical teaching,” and “B” beliefs, which contradict Christian truth (“B” doctrines) and “lead listeners to find some Christian…

— Timothy Keller

The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for…

— David McCullough

An able man shows his spirit by gentle words and resolute actions. He is neither hot nor timid.

— Lord Chesterfield

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

— Henry Mitchell

Real faith has perfect peace and joy and a shout at any time. It always sees the victory.

— Smith Wigglesworth

My whole entry into astronomy started from a spiritual place.

— Carolyn Porco

There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.

— Leon Wieseltier

Each one of us has it in themselves to be a free spirit, just as every rose bud has in it a…

— Rudolf Steiner

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

— Saint Augustine

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”

— Aldous Huxley

Nobody knows 100% what affects the human body, mind or spirit.

— R. Kelly

The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.

— Timothy Keller

While the True Church can never fail For it is based upon a rock.

— Thomas Stearns Eliot

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock

“Chains cease to be needed after the spirit has gone out of a prisoner.”

— Anonymous

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

— Max Lucado

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

— Mooji

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

— John Rawls