Religion Quotes · Page 483

Love yourself, believe in yourself, find the spirit within and your dream will come true.

— Anonymous

Jerry Springer' is just kind of the chubby, redneck version of throwing Christians to the lions.

— Hal Sparks

The German is the discipline of fear; ours is the discipline of faith — and faith will triumph.

— Joseph Joffre

You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose.

— Dannion Brinkley

“It was politics and religion, in van Dyck’s private view, that made men dangerous. Trade made them wise.”

— Edward Rutherfurd

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

— Thomas Hobbes

Jesus was the greatest religious genius that ever lived.

— Ernest Renan

Those who have themselves for a spiritual director have a fool for a spiritual director.

— Philip Neri

Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

— Steve Almond

“These quasi-faithful are growing in strength. They are the fundamentalists today, and they abound in all the religions.”

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

One could say the higher the spirit goes, the more deeply the soul sinks down into the waters of melancholy and tragedy.…

— Robert Bly

“To get where we want to be, we must first trust, then make the leap of faith that our Heavenly Father will…

— Tommy Jones

“There is a gravity of spirit that pulls the essence of who we are into being. Our job, like all our sister…

— Mark Nepo

“Life is a war against a spiritual enemy we cannot see. We can’t win on our own, but the God who sees…

— Mark Driscoll

Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the…

— George Eliot

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven…

— John Prine

“Although I am still far from this kind of interior understanding of myself, with profound respect for its significance I have sought…

— Søren Kierkegaard

“1. The Doctrine for Men and Devas. The Buddha, to meet temporarily the spiritual needs of the uninitiated, preached a doctrine concerning…

— Kaiten Nukariya

“But the Christianity that called to me, through the stories I read in the Bible, scattered the proud and rebuked the powerful.…

— Sara Miles

We need to make our own the ancient pastoral wisdom which... encouraged Pastors to listen more widely to the entire People of…

— Pope John Paul II

Fans of different races, castes, ethnicities and religions who together celebrate their diversity by uniting for a common national cause. They are…

— Kumar Sangakkara

“All of the problems in the world today arise from an inability to grasp the underlying oneness of life. The division of…

— David Frawley

Some ... have imagined that by arousing a baseless suspicion in the mind of the beloved we can revive a waning devotion.…

— Murasaki Shikibu

Let us be banded together as one man; let us contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints; let us…

— Charles Spurgeon

We are the meeting place, an entity that's trying to connect faith and culture.

— William P. Leahy

“Organised religion generally gets in the way of spiritual experience.”

— Alan McCluskey

I have faith in the Almighty and believe in his kindness.

— Sara Khan

Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

— Samuel Smiles

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

— Jerry Falwell

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

— Yao Ming

Do not feed children on maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature

— Luther Burbank

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

— John Stott

If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow.

— Dan Simmons

Three things faith does: it reckons on God; it risks with God (and) it rests in God.

— Leonard Ravenhill

My religious position: I think that God could do a lot better, and I'm willing to give Him the chance.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“If Jesus is not enough, the person you met wasn´t Jesus.”

— Alin Sav

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

— Giannina Braschi

Until we understand the essence and difference between religion and nature, reality will always elude us.

— Kemmy Nola

I know no religion that destroys courtesy, civility, and kindness.

— William Penn

Any view of the sciences that leaves Christ out of the picture must be seen as fundamentally deficient.

— William A. Dembski