Religion Quotes · Page 527

Spiritual energy flows in and produces effects, psychological or material, within the phenomenal world.

— William James

“America isn’t perfect but there’s not a better place in the world for people of any faith.”

— Tucker Elliot

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

— Stephen King

Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

— Mahalia Jackson

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

— Karl Barth

You don't even know the sequences to the Human-Gnome Project, you haven't come to terms with your God yet.

— Canibus

Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.

— Tupac Shakur

While all religious beliefs should be respected, choice is a human right.

— Sara Pascoe

Humans have always wondered the big questions, "Who am I? Where have I come from? Where am I going?" It's part of…

— Sylvia Earle

“This is a scientific way to understand God, and religion (dharma) pushes sins & wrong doings (adharma) away. When can that adharma…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Sometimes it seems that God has set us aside, when in reality he is undoing our self-efforts, equipping us with character and…

— Zondervan

And we've got to ask ourselves some very serious questions as to whether or not certain religious leaders, in terms of raising…

— Tony Campolo

I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the…

— Upton Sinclair

“Discipleship and spiritual formation are less about erecting an edifice of knowledge than they are a matter of developing a Christian know-how…

— James K.A. Smith

The political process is rough and tumble by definition, and being grounded in faith in a Higher Power has proven helpful in…

— Hakeem Jeffries

I did a month of training with horses where I learned how to connect with the horse spiritually, mentally, everything.

— Caleb McLaughlin

Faith is for the future. Faith builds on the past but never longs to stay there. Faith trusts that God has great…

— Jeffrey R. Holland

Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts,…

— Thomas Carlyle

“Religious moderation, insofar as it represents an attempt to hold on to what is still serviceable in orthodox religion, closes the door…

— Sam Harris

One form of religion perpetually gives way to another; if religion did not change it would be dead. ... Each time the…

— Edith Hamilton

The American people are extraordinarily comfortable, affluent, and secure. It's easy for us to make the argument that God's purpose is being…

— Walter Russell Mead

“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly…

— Merlin Stone

“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite.…

— Carl Sagan

I believe that one of the most damning things about our culture is the adage to never talk religion and politics. Because…

— Julianna Baggott

Devotion is a place where you do not exist; life just flows through you as a certain sweetness and beauty.

— Jaggi Vasudev

You go to Africa, and you see how things are over there. Spiritually, it opens you up.

— Ghostface Killah

You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.

— Huston Smith

If you get your spirit and heart right, everything else flows from there.

— Orrin Woodward

Judaism is in a sense a Rabbinic, Talmudic religion, rather than a Biblical religion.

— Elie Wiesel

Most writers need a wound, either physical or spiritual.

— Martin Amis

There is no gospel without the offence. This is God's wisdom. It never seems sensible to us in our flesh.

— Mark Dever

“They say the Bible is perfect, but it appears that God needs an editor.”

— Joe Wenke

“Only priests and politicians benefit from a people's ignorance.”

— Ki Longfellow

The language of priorities is the religion of socialism.

— Aneurin Bevan

Evolution is the cornerstone of modern biology. Intelligent design is not a scientific concept.

— John Marburger

“Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord.”

— Shri Radhe Maa

For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm.

— Voltaire

Capitalism has resulted in material well-being but spiritual bankruptcy.

— Jeffrey Eugenides

The Holy Spirit will lead you to be with people as Jesus would be with them if He were in your place.

— John Ortberg

Evidently, whatever else marriage might prevent, it was not a remedy for isolation of spirit.

— Ellen Glasgow