Religion Quotes · Page 386

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

— Clarence Darrow

“Selecting leaders apart from spiritual qualifications leads always to unspiritual administration.”

— J Oswald Sanders

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

— Christopher Owens

“A spirit cannot be whole if it willfully ignores the suffering of others" -Jack”

— Bethany Hagen

I like walking in the pool. That isn't what makes me feel spiritual. But alive.

— Ram Dass

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.

— Matthew Arnold

The competitive spirit and the way we worked hard growing up came naturally to me from my family.

— Kevin Knox

I think that gardening is nearer to godliness than theology.

— Anonymous

Enlightenment has nothing to do with being spiritual. Being spiritual is just an idea - it's another ring of perception.

— Frederick Lenz

I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.

— Sloane Crosley

The books the Holy Spirit is writing are living, and every soul a volume in which the divine author makes a true…

— Jean-Pierre de Caussade

Christianity is more than history; it is also a system of truths. Every event which its history records, either is a truth,…

— Noah Porter

THE MAJORITY of children born into the world tend to inherit the beliefs of their parents, and that to me is one…

— Richard Dawkins

“All religions, nearly all philosophies, and even a part of science testify to the unwearying, heroic effort of mankind desperately denying its…

— Jacques Monod

You broke my heart, When you said goodbye, And only you can lift my spirit, You gave me wings and now you're…

— Cute And Scars

The factor stringing together individuals, society and nature is missing from today's educational system. That factor is spiritual values.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“But then twitching nervously in the presence of a librarian wasn't an uncommon response—librarians, like ministers of religion, and poets, and people…

— Ian Sansom

It is the most human and kindly of seasons, as fully penetrated and irradiated with the feeling of human brotherhood, which is…

— George William Curtis

There must be much more going on behind the scenes. The pivotal question is this: What is behind the deep-seated hatred that…

— Gerard Verschuuren

Look up, look up, and let your faith continually increase. Let this faith guide you along the narrow path that leads through…

— Ellen G. White

By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual…

— Ronald Reagan

“And here she was, an old woman now, living and hoping, keeping faith, afraid of evil, full of anxiety for the living…

— Vasily Grossman

Persons who would never think of announcing boldly to the world, 'I am a scholar,' 'I am a great artist,' 'I am…

— Georgia Harkness

How can we find spiritual meaning in a scientific worldview? Spirituality is a way of being in the world, a sense of…

— Michael Shermer

“...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table.”

— Nathanael West

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

— Philip Roth

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“In every religion there is always a touch of mystery. Letting the mind wander in unnecessary things.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

— Thomas Huxley

“If we read the Scripture, we shall know what God requires of us.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I love music, I've always done music, felt it on a spiritual level and I write for myself and not anybody else.

— Montaigne

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

— Ambrose Bierce

My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“The fastest way to lose weight is to find religion and start fasting.”

— Jarod Kintz

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

— Ayn Rand

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

— Mark Twain

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

— Billy Graham

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

— Timothy Keller

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

— Rajneesh