Religion Quotes · Page 366

There always seems to be an element of faith in my writing.

— Michaela Coel

It is time we gave man faith in woman -- and, still more, woman faith in herself.

— Lucy Stone

“Faith ― acceptance of which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.”

— Dan Brown

Science, philosophy and religion are bound to converge as they draw nearer to the whole.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

“No real God should need protection from bloggers and no real prophet should need protection from cartoons.”

— Ali A. Rizvi

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

— Charles Kingsley

The sense of spiritual relief which comes from rejecting the idea of God as a supernatural being is enormous.

— Anonymous

People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.

— Irving Kristol

The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.

— Henry A. Wallace

Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.

— Ed Rendell

Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take…

— Naomi Wolf

“something that makes sense only if you can see a bigger picture of reality. Maybe that is where faith fits in.”

— William Paul Young

Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to…

— Charles Spurgeon

“For the apologist, one of the most important questions to ask about non-Christian worldviews is this: why would anyone want to believe…

— Alister McGrath

Pete- What does a woman want out of marriage? Louisa- Undying devotion and a warm place to put her cold feet when…

— Janet Evanovich

Religious tolerance has developed more as a consequence of the impotence of religions to impose their dogmas on each other than as…

— Sidney Hook

“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,…

— Frederick Buechner

“Bonhoeffer’s three conclusions—that the church must question the state, help the state’s victims, and work against the state, if necessary—were too much…

— Eric Metaxas

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral…

— Joseph Sobran

The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of…

— Anonymous

In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished…

— Carl Sagan

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. We lived at the junction of great trout rivers…

— Norman Maclean

“Son of a bitch! I own your place! I’m your host. Is this how you repay me? By stealing my woman?” The…

— Elliot Mabeuse

I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility…

— Thomas Jefferson

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

— Joseph Goebbels

This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.

— Joseph Addison

“You can’t argue with religious people; you can’t change their mind even if you prove them wrong.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I grew up Catholic, so I had a more traditional relationship with religion.

— Yvonne Orji

“But a man's walking-around body can be a ghost a whole lot easier than his spirit can.”

— Sarah Porter

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

— Lao Tzu

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

— Isadora James

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

— Anonymous

Sometimes God calls a person to unbelief in order that faith may take new forms.

— Christian Wiman

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

— John Ruskin

people say churches are half empty, they're not, they're too big

— Sean Lock

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

— John McLaughlin

You listen to my dreams that I vision. Respect that I smoke Mary Jane, it's like my religion.

— SPM

Though we claim to believe the whole of Scripture, in practice we frequently deny much of it by ignoring it.

— Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

— N. T. Wright