Religion Quotes · Page 376

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

— N. Scott Momaday

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.

— Cody Fern

“Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.”

— Raphael Zernoff

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

— Gary Hamel

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

— Liz Williams

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

— Lawrence M. Miller

It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me.

— Tim Tebow

An honest religious thinker is like a tightrope walker. He almost looks as though he were walking on nothing but air. His…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the…

— Shari Arison

There is religion in everything around us, - a calm and holy religion in the unbreathing things of Nature, which man would…

— John Greenleaf Whittier

My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality…

— Kelli O'Hara

Lives with no more sense of spiritual meaning than that provided by shopping malls, ordinary television, and stagnant workplaces are barren lives…

— Marianne Williamson

It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery,…

— Daniel Berrigan

I've never had a mental break-down, where I've grappled with my own sense of religion, but I've definitely had my heart broken…

— Sophie Rundle

“When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial.”

— Idries Shah

“The names of the twelve qualities reveal their natures. These names are not given to them until they are called to discipleship.…

— Neville Goddard

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony…

— Pope Pius XI

Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I…

— Anne Lamott

“written, “A Christian is one who points at Christ and says, ‘I can’t prove a thing, but there’s something about his eyes…

— Anonymous

For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And…

— Oprah Winfrey

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been…

— Thomas Jefferson

“A true theology must be a preachable theology, and it must speak to the hearts and minds of believers, even if they…

— Gerald Bray

My spirit. This is a new thought. I'm not sure exactly what it means, but it suggests I'm a fighter. In a…

— Suzanne Collins

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

— Amish Tripathi

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

“Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...”

— Elizabeth Peters

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

— Tullian Tchividjian

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

— Paul Ricoeur

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

— Oswald Chambers

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

— Albert Einstein

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

— George Barrell Cheever

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

— John Bartholomew Gough

“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,”

— Jack L. Chalker

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do…

— Philip Yancey

Faith is oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking

— Anonymous

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?

— Wallace Stevens