Religion Quotes · Page 494

Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

— Jack Miller

Criticism of the commitment of religion to the supernatural is thus positive in import.

— John Dewey

Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation.

— Thomas Merton

Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith to get to where you want to be.

— Anonymous

As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

— Protagoras

If you can stand up for your faith when you're on top, you can stand up for it now that you're at…

— Kurt Warner

True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The task of organized religion is not to prove that God was in the 1st century, but that he is in the…

— S H Miller

“Wilhelm Dilthey puts it rather starkly, "Jesus came announcing the Kingdom of God, but what appeared was the church.”

— Rachel Held Evans

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in…

— James Madison

Too many activists have convinced themselves that they have a monopoly on truth. A little humility and a sense of history could…

— Jon Meacham

The Bible, which ranges over a period of four thousand years, records but one instance of a death-bed conversion (the thief on…

— Thomas Guthrie

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can…

— Tolly Burkan

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God!…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

All living beings are spiritual beings because all of life breathes. Breath is an indication that spirit is present.

— Sharon Gannon

“If you find that you are selfish, give something away. Determine to overcome that spirit of selfishness and to keep your body…

— D.L. Moody

“The philosophy of rationalism has misunderstood the nature of man, the nature of the social world, and the nature of reason itself.…

— Hans J. Morgenthau

I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to…

— E. O. Wilson

“The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a…

— Stephen Colbert

I'm no longer religious, but the Bible fascinates me. Hardly anyone reads it anymore, but it's got everything: it's a book of…

— Tara Westover

Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“‎"If our world is regulated by reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of Darwin; or reductionist, narrow, sophomoric versions of religious dogma; you end…

— Cornel West

At no time and in no circumstances should a Communist place his personal interests first; he should subordinate them to the interests…

— Mao Zedong

Since I have known God in a saving manner, painting, poetry, and music have had charms unknown to me before. I have…

— Henry Martyn

“I don't think crucifixion is the answer. I believe in the resurrection. I like that part of the story.”

— Mort Sahl

“God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.”

— Amit Ray

“If Christian, we open the Holy Bible. And read, they shall grow in the knowledge of Christ Jesus.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

— Steven Van Zandt

The word stands for the body, but the symphony stands for the spirit.

— Hildegard of Bingen

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer.

— Arthur Tappan Pierson

“similarity among all the speeches in Acts suggests that they were written by the same person—Luke.”

— Bart D. Ehrman

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

— Immanuel Kant

Listen, one doesn't need to be religious (nor a rocket scientist) to see the value of abstinence.

— Steven Crowder

“I don’t want to take away anybody’s religion, but simply to make them see what religion really means.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The lord works in mysterious ways. Indeed. And a shorter way to say that is: God is a sneak.

— Demetri Martin

Your political views really denote your spiritual views.

— Alanis Morissette

Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.

— Henry B. Eyring

People who are on a spiritual quest don't think, they simply want results.

— Paulo Coelho

Fasting is a constant means of renewing yourself spiritually.

— Jentezen Franklin

The resurrection of Jesus was like a boulder crashing into the pool of history.

— Karl Barth