Religion Quotes · Page 481

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

— Anonymous

The knowledge and spiritual conviction we receive from the Holy Ghost are the result of revelation.

— David A. Bednar

“Don't get tied up in something merely religious in search of something that is is Christian”

— Charles Lyons

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

A perfect faith is nowhere to be found, so it follows that all of us are partly unbelievers.

— John Calvin

If your church loves the way you do church more than your children, it loves the wrong thing.

— Ed Stetzer

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

— Andre Malraux

“The story Grandpa told us helped me realize that people cannot be divided into groups by ethnicity, religion, or any other feature,…

— Savo Heleta

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

— Frederick Lenz

“True Spirituality is not a matter of indoctrination. It cannot be inspired by compulsion. You are free to en-quire into its principles;…

— Dada J P Vaswani

One does not become an atheist out of a desire for hassle-free Sunday mornings. People come to atheism because they have a…

— Lynn Coady

Its from the deep waters that we come. And we are heartfelt and treacherous like those waters. We come with an unflinching…

— Lisa Bonet

All that is observable in a man-that is to say his actions and such of his spiritual existence as can be deduced…

— E. M. Forster

We are not brought by faith into a realm of passivity, but rather, we are brought into the realm of diligent activity.

— Alistair Begg

That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of…

— Charles R. Swindoll

Obedience is necessary not only for monks, but for all people. Even the Lord was obedient. The proud and self-regarding do not…

— Silouan the Athonite

The Pilgrims were unified by their religious zeal, but they couldn't fish, they didn't know how to hunt, and they were bad…

— Mark Kurlansky

We ought to reverence books; to look on them as useful and mighty things. If they are good and true, whether they…

— Charles Kingsley

“Dear Heavenly Father, I pray You pour out Your Holy Spirit into me as Your vessel. I pray You fill me with…

— Glenn Langohr

“If you want power, praise more! If you want power gifts, love more! Do not be like those Paul foresaw: “having a…

— Anonymous

“Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the spirit of the Mountain was thinking; and looked up and saw jackpines…

— Jack Kerouac

We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by…

— Charles Henry Mackintosh

Papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy are the two ecclesiastical versions of this human idolatry. Both papal infallibility and biblical inerrancy require widespread…

— John Shelby Spong

In old time we had treen chalices and golden priests, but now we have treen priests and golden chalices.

— John Jewel

The gospel is not a truth among other truths. Rather, it sets a question mark against all truths.

— Karl Barth

If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.

— Oswald Chambers

“I'm not religious, I'm spiritual and I practice my spirituality religiously.”

— Meilena Hauslendale

“Death - Is only when the spirit evolves to a higher state that the body becomes old technology.”

— Linda Deir

There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

— Thomas Carlyle

I think it's super important for the church itself to rediscover the gospel.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.

— Deepak Chopra

I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.

— Kirstie Alley

The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

— Simone Weil

[Science] is corrosive of religious belief, and it's a good thing too.

— Steven Weinberg

I have never been religious, but I've seen the strength of it.

— Sebastian Lelio

Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all.

— Gene Simmons

My heart, my fighting spirit. These are the two things I'm mostly proud about.

— Maria Sakkari

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

— Robert Greene

“The heathen could only be eliminated as a force if their culture was completely erased.”

— Tariq Ali