Religion Quotes · Page 380

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.”

— Lisa Wingate

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

— Rick Warren

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

— Herman Melville

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

— Rob Campbell

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

— James E. Faust

The reasoning isn't crazy. It's technically correct. If you're being true to the idea that government must not take positions on religious…

— Jack Balkin

“Knowing that the brain is predisposed to religion and spirituality, then might it be that God is a creation of the brain?”

— Stephen Richards

To be spiritual is not by praying and going to church. Spiritualism is the understanding of the universe so that it can…

— Fela Kuti

“Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving.”

— Henry R. Van Til

“Yet, like everything in their lives, there were contradictions. He was the idealist with little faith, and she was the pragmatist who…

— Laurie Fabiano

I consider the government of the U.S. as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.

— Thomas Jefferson

In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

“Costly rituals help communities grow stronger, and this can have major implications for their long-term survival and prosperity.”

— Dimitris Xygalatas

In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that…

— Juan Goytisolo

So I think the Guru can be a delusion. But everything can be deluding. The thing central about the Guru in the…

— Joseph Campbell

“Today, these values are often encrusted in language that obscures their meaning and inhibits their potential to influence and inspire. For example,…

— Zachary I Heller

If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in…

— Brennan Manning

“In this pre-Lukan tradition, Jesus was made the Son of God at the resurrection. This is a view Luke inherited from his…

— Bart D. Ehrman

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing…

— John Steinbeck

For every Christian, the proclamation and witnessing of the Gospel are never an isolated act. This is important. For every Christian the…

— Pope Francis

There's pros and cons of a big church. Cons is I don't get to know everybody, I don't get to go to…

— Joel Osteen

No member of society has the right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

— Samuel Johnson

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

— Ken Follett

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

— Austin Farrer

“As the old wanderer often mumbled, The gates of Eden are always open, but few bother to look.”

— Anonymous

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

— Rob Bell

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

— Thomas a Kempis

I have holiday spirit in that it comes in a bottle and leaves me with a glowing red nose.

— Anonymous

'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.

— Julia Cameron

I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

— Donald Wuerl

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

— Bernard Beckett

Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.

— James Hogg

At Oxford University, the certainties of my atheist faith (and atheism is a faith) began to crumble

— Alister E. McGrath

“And don't waste time worshipping Harmony. Doing good was the worship.”

— Brandon Sanderson

If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.

— L. Ron Hubbard

Yet, though it is like this, simply, flowers fall amid our longing and weeds spring up amid our antipathy.

— Dogen

I describe myself as a "spiritual sampler," raised Catholic, been Baptist, Methodist, and a Unity member.

— Julianne Malveaux