Religion Quotes · Page 502

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

— David Lloyd George

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

— Eckhart Tolle

Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.

— Christopher Hitchens

The goal of the pastor is not to get people to show up but to get people to grow up.

— John C. Maxwell

Here's the thing about people who believe in god... They're idiots.

— Jim Jefferies

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

— Mary Elizabeth Braddon

I always love making albums. I'm passionate about it and it's something that's healthy for the soul and spirit.

— Lee Ritenour

“She handles the books tenderly, a glow of utter devotion on here face.”

— Kim Church

“the church’s fundamental task is to mediate God’s presence as priests and to rule on behalf of God as kings and queens…

— Tremper Longman III

“Reading is accumulating knowledge. But not only that. Reading offers us every day what religion promises us for a posthumous and improbable…

— Camilo Gomes Jr

“In Ignatian spirituality there is nothing that you have to put in a box and hide. Nothing has to be feared. Nothing…

— James Martin

I believe very confidently in the truth of Scripture, where it says that there is no authority, no power given to man…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

“The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe…

— Richard Dawkins

I'd sort of gone through some sort of spiritual change in the late 70s where I sort of saw there was some…

— Bill Murray

We imagine that whatever is unpleasant is our duty! Is that anything like the spirit of our Lord, "I *delight* to do…

— Oswald Chambers

If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other…

— Hosea Ballou

“THE ONENESS OF ALL BELIEVERS Ephesians 4:4-6 Believers are one in   Our unity is experienced in Body   The fellowship of believers—the…

— Tyndale

While it's true that you may lose your religion during the course of a lifetime, you never lose your salvation. Once you…

— Cathleen Falsani

“She had recently come to think that in such unhappy times-when the odds were so high against personal happiness-to find love was…

— Bernard Malamud

Jesus Christ was the only one capable of performing the magnificent Atonement because He was the only perfect man and the Only…

— Cecil O. Samuelson

“The no-booze rule is one of several shams perpetuated by certain religious groups, presumably to keep their flocks in line. After all,…

— Chila Woychik

“False repentance is less concerned with the spiritual contamination of sin than it is with the personal consequences of sin. True repentance…

— Bryan Chapell

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry…

— Thomas Jefferson

I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect but no…

— Robert Blatchford

In some very real way, rock 'n' roll is like a religion to me.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

— Dorothy Day

We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Freedom from spiritual conflicts and bondage is not a power encounter; it's a truth encounter.

— Neil T Anderson

Faith is always reshaping according to your conscious understanding.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Remember it is not you who supports the root, but the root that supports you.”

— Apostle Paul -- Letter to the Romans

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

— Jules de Goncourt

Having faith puts us in a state of confidence in things not seen but already is.

— Geraldine Vermaak

The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Authentic Christianity is a supernatural walk with a living, dynamic, communicating God.

— Bill Hybels

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“She felt a wonderful lightness of spirit, a soul-stirring joy in mere existence.”

— L.M. Montgomery

Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

— Emma Goldman

Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?

— R. C. Sproul

Jesus is center, people are central. That's an equation for a healthy youth ministry.

— Doug Fields

Integration is nothing but your complete connection with your spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava