Religion Quotes · Page 447

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

— Nhat Hanh

I have studied religion, and I have concluded that there is some power. We don't understand it.

— Kirk Douglas

“The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.”

— Fred C. White

“I THINK TENSION AND FAITH IN GOD ARE TWO OPPOSITE THINGS.”

— USMAN HYDER

“I will always be thankful to you for these changes and the spirit of life you inculcated in me.”

— Austin V. Songer

Greatest preacher would be the one, that can make things of faith, understandable to unbelieving person.

— Michael Sams

The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.

— Timothy Keller

When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

— Kay Arthur

For me, religion is a political construct, and spirituality is a community construct, and there's a real difference.

— Brandon Victor Dixon

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

— CS Lewis

“Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell…

— Mitch Albom

From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

— Erma Bombeck

I accept with sincere belief the doctrine of faith as handed down to us from the Apostles by the orthodox Fathers, always…

— Pope Pius X

“A true god surely cannot have been born of a girl, nor died on the gibbet, nor be eaten in a piece…

— Voltaire

“Jesus was born at the dawn of the Piscean Age, for which he designed a new religion. Now, our planet’s era is…

— Stefan Emunds

“A man walks into a coffee shop. As the man talks across the counter, the coffee guy makes his coffee and sets…

— Geoffrey Wood

That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“History is full of religious wars; but, we must take care to observe, it was not the multiplicity of religions that produced…

— Montesquieu

There is a lot of people walking around who don't understand why our lord had to die on the cross at Calvary…

— Glen Rambharack

It is the great business of every Christian to save souls. People complain that they do not know how to take hold…

— Anonymous

The New Birth church is a church unto itself who has a board and it has a membership. How they choose to…

— T. D. Jakes

When I became religious, it was full-force for me. And, through the lifestyle of being out on the road with non-Jewish musicians,…

— Matisyahu

For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“When duty and religion are really destroyed, it will be by the rich.”

— G.K. Chesterton

Sincere desire and worthiness invite the spirit of revelation into our lives.

— David A. Bednar

People are of two types, they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

— Doug Stanhope

Christianity is not about learning how to live within the lines; Christianity is about the joy of coloring.

— Mike Yaconelli

Preaching means to awaken the real inclination to serve God.

— Radhanath Swami

“The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.”

— John Piper

When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.

— Sinclair Lewis

The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form.

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.

— Frederica Mathewes-Green

Despotism may be able to do without religion, but democracy cannot.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

All God's religions ... have not been able to put mankind back together again.

— John Cage

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

— Jacques Maritain

“no amount of violence or cruelty can rupture my faith in myself, my agency and ability to choose and to love.”

— Sierra Simone

I do what the directors want me to do with all sincerity and devotion. And ultimately my sincerity pays.

— Navya Nair

I have faith in faith. God is there, whether we have faith or not, so why not have faith in him?

— Valerie Bertinelli