Religion Quotes · Page 548

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

— Charles Barkley

“Grounding is not a descent from spirit, but a way to embody it.”

— Deva Arani

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

— Dalai Lama

Results like these [state of the earth] do not belong on the resumé of a supreme being.

— George Carlin

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

— Heidi Montag

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

— John Updike

“[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)”

— David Hume

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

— Thomas Jefferson

“Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals…

— Gary Chapman

Everyone just did what their parents did. So that immediately made me skeptical of the whole religion thing, even as a kid.…

— Aziz Ansari

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would…

— Ernestine Rose

There's a difference between mastering something physical and working with an animal. There's a spiritual component to working with a horse. You're…

— Buck Brannaman

I grew up with a sense of music being a very spiritual experience while playing in church and with parents who were…

— Kamasi Washington

Everything starts with faith. Faith causes us to see good things in the future, and because of this we develop a vision…

— Casey Treat

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there…

— Albert Camus

There's a religious basis to their [Bush and Chaney] kind of conservatism. It's rooted in a kind of fundamentalism. I'm afraid of…

— Sydney Pollack

For an academic to launch a public conversation about journalistic integrity, the role of religion in society, scholarship and faith is a…

— Reza Aslan

“Religious fanaticism is not the only clear and present danger in our world. The greatest dangers confronting human kind are still those…

— Tina Beattie

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your…

— Terry Pratchett

“All in all, Christian nation proponents commit several errors in their claims about the religious beliefs of the Founders. Their claims isolate…

— Steven K. Green

“Her religion--perhaps, Alwyn thought, American Christianity as a whole--was a religion of ideal prose; all the beauty it had was the elegance…

— Glenway Wescott

“It is better to have a Christian’s days of sorrows than an unbeliever’s days of fun; better to have a Christian’s sorrows…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Religion is much more than language, but to be Christian does mean speaking Christian for most people. The language many of us…

— Marcus Borg

“Computation, after all, implied a problem not yet solved, insights not yet achieved. There was really only one sort of program for…

— Peter Watts

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

— Wendell Phillips

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

— Frederick Buechner

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all…

— Rick Riordan

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

— Pope Pius XI

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

— T. D. Jakes

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

— Myles Munroe

“It is the theology of the cross over against theologies of glory that drives Calvin’s reforming zeal.”

— Michael S. Horton

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

— Lawrence Wright

“My spirit is joyful, and I love my higher self. I am my higher self.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?”

— Lakesha Ruise

“The difference between Science and Faith, therefore, is no more and no less than predictive power.”

— Anonymous

The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful

— Kofi Annan

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

— Timothy Keller

Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.

— Mark Hart