Religion Quotes · Page 473

I can't be a man. But I can embrace the head of a man, the intelligence of a man, the spirit of…

— Linda Hunt

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed.

— Graham Stanton

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

— Eric Hoffer

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

— Thomas Aquinas

I've never had any religion. I'd prefer it if I did, really. Even as a boy I just couldn't make myself believe.

— David Gilmour

“Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.”

— Steve Maraboli

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

— Philip Yancey

The distance between faith and not knowing is prayer and patience for God's will and understanding!

— Bobby Compton

The happiness of a people, and the good order and preservation of civil government, essentially depend on piety, religion, and morality.

— Fisher Ames

“I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've…

— Zak Ebrahim

“I want to love like my grandmother, who loved a woman like Joseph loved Mary. Someone so imperfect, so human, brave enough…

— R. YS Perez

I think we use God's word. I think the principles that you hear Dr. Phil and some of those others talk about…

— Joel Osteen

To crave for happiness in this world is simply to be possessed by a spirit of revolt. What right have we to…

— Henrik Ibsen

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

— Anonymous

My brother was my first guru who introduced me to spiritualism at a very young age. He later even enrolled me into…

— Rajinikanth

Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West.

— Michael Shellenberger

I am uncomfortable with talking of poetry as a priestly profession, because I have little use for organized religions and priestly hierarchies.…

— Adrienne Rich

“Just as religion has fettered the human mind, and as property, or the monopoly of things, has subdued and stifled man’s needs,…

— Emma Goldman

Those who aren't following Jesus aren't his followers. Its that simple. Followers follow, and those who don't follow aren't followers. To follow…

— Scot McKnight

“It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love. The heart is bigger than a mountain. One…

— Ben Okri

“Yet the freedom of the artist, the pure beauty of nature, and the liberty of each of us to live our lives…

— Sabazius X°

I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…

— Charles Lyell

“There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the…

— Dorothy Day

“any system of morals which has a theological basis becomes one of the tools by which the holders of power preserve their…

— S.T. Joshi

“Our loved ones are always with us whether they are of the flesh or of the spirit.”

— Lynn Hubbard

Faith is believing that the things you cannot see are more real than the things you can see.

— Karen Wheaton

“May God overflow your life with bountiful blessings of grace.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith's twin brother and is born at the same time.

— Charles Spurgeon

To survive in this world, you need not to fear, have courage, faith and believe in yourself

— Bismark Frimpong

I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person.

— Tig Notaro

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

— Gad Saad

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

— Thornton Wilder

I have a very strong faith in God, and I have a strong family base.

— La La Anthony

“Jesus died on the cross and rose from the grave to make us holy and acceptable to Him once and for all.”

— Charles F. Stanley

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

— Benjamin Franklin

Uare who u are, NOT bcause of what other people wanted u to be, BUT what GOD pictured u too be!

— Ceci Crooms

The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it.

— Margot Adler

“Billy Graham’s crusades likely marked the peak of mass evangelism.”

— John S. Dickerson

As mainstream religious leaders of different faiths get together, it strengthens the voice of moderation.

— Ibrahim Hooper

“The key to your heart should be held by the One who made it.”

— Kristin McKenzie Rice