Religion Quotes · Page 404

“religion, but not faith, can be taught. Faith must be inspired within a faith community.”

— Catherine Stonehouse

“Be soul-conscious not self-conscious. Self-consciousness is egocentric and soul-consciousness is spiritual.”

— Debasish Mridha

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.

— William Jennings Bryan

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

— Daniel Dennett

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.

— Jim Palmer

Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

— Michel de Montaigne

Themes rise and fall. Kingdoms rise and fall. Religions rise and fall.

— Fab Moretti

An American religion: Work, play, breathe, bathe, study, live, laugh, and love.

— Elbert Hubbard

I'm a constitutionalist. You know, does faith matter to me? Sure. But the beauty of the Constitution, the beauty of the First…

— Ted Cruz

I appreciate that question because I, in the state of Texas, had heard a lot of discussion about a faith-based initiative eroding…

— George W. Bush

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I was unwilling to - without getting too philosophical about it - I was unwilling to structure my spirituality in the way…

— Peter Jurasik

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Yes, and Duchamp too, when he was asked what he thought about God, said, 'Let's not talk about that. That's man's stupidest…

— Richard Kostelanetz

Now anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity. It is the fruit of unanswered questions. But questions cannot go unanswered unless they…

— Thomas Merton

I think Muslims have become the new Negroes in America. They are being mistreated at airports, by the Immigration - everywhere. Islam…

— Jermaine Jackson

“Who are theologians? What kind of self-identity could or should a theologian claim? Should a theologian be a defender or transmitter of…

— Namsoon Kang

“It's one thing to forbid the worship of a god, and another to command that it be forgotten. One day I found…

— Sarah Micklem

“***Not Religious October 31, 2017 I am an ordained Lama of the Celtic Buddhist lineage, a multi-decade student of many great Tibetan…

— Doug "Ten" Rose

“The reason I love rules and plans and religions is that people feel safe in them for a while. And, personally, I…

— Byron Katie

When we think of training ourselves in godliness, we usually think of the traditional spiritual disciplines, but it can also be practical…

— Kenneth Boa

“Here we are [at BYU] doing what is not done in any other major university of which I am aware. We are…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Eastwood nodded. “So, like I said, the guy in the fur suit was an Atavist. They channel the power of a primal…

— Michael R. Underwood

“I came to understand that belief is a preconception about the way reality should be; faith is the willingness to experience reality…

— Judith Hanson Lasater

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

— William James

Ascetic spirituality is a symptom of the very disease which it intends to cure.

— Anodea Judith

People who pin their faith to a catchword never feel the necessity of understanding anything.

— Agnes Repplier

“To embrace the spirit of godliness is to embrace everything godliness stands for.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Faith makes the discords of the present the harmonies of the future.

— Robert Collyer

Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.

— Samantha Morton

“In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.”

— Voltaire

Scripture is the most up-to-date and relevant reading that ever comes my way.

— J. I. Packer

The spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes.

— William Shakespeare

A free spirit must be able to surmount anxiety time after time.

— Mason Cooley

Faith is putting all your eggs in God's basket, then counting your blessings before they hatch.

— Ramona C Carrol

He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done…

— Anonymous

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

— Bentley Little

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

— Subramanian Swamy

Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.

— Swami Vivekananda

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

— Maya Angelou