Religion Quotes · Page 549

“Misguided loyalty allows the delusions of the leader to grow and destroys the faith of the loyal.”

— Stephen Arterburn

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

— Carlos Castaneda

There should be something diverse about your Christianity or else your Christianity is not authentic

— Crawford Loritts

“She believed in me. Where I had doubt and fear, she had faith.”

— Joanne Owen

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

— George Whitefield

“Which would you choose? A world without religion? Or a world without science?”

— Dan Brown

Religious freedom doesn't mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs

— Barack Obama

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should…

— John Owen

I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as…

— Sigmund Freud

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

— Stephen Covey

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to…

— Swami Vivekananda

The men with God's 'go' in them have these three characteristics-a saving experience, the evidence of supernatural power at work, and the…

— Oswald Chambers

The question Americans should ask is not whether a candidate is affiliated with a particular faith but rather whether that candidate's faith…

— Gary Bauer

“Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd, and bloody religion that has ever infected the world. [In a letter to Frederick…

— Voltaire

We must desire to be separated unto the Lord from the world and its evil system. We must reckon ourselves dead to…

— Theodore Epp

I really wasn't raised with much religion. I mean we practice kind of the basic tradition, but for me it was always…

— Randy Rainbow

“In this postcolonial context, my contention is that interreligious engagement is enhanced by renewed attention to the particularity of religious traditions. From…

— Jenny Daggers

“The cross is not the suffering tied to natural existence, but the suffering tied to being Christians. The cross is never simply…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“If our research leads us to a result that reduces religion to the status of a neurosis of mankind and explains it's…

— Anonymous

The attributes of God, though intelligible to us on their surface yet, for the very reason that they are infinite, transcend our…

— John Henry Newman

Gandhi said it; Frederick Douglass said it. A lot of people have probably said 'It's not Christ that I have a problem…

— Lecrae

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into…

— Noam Chomsky

I am much less interested in what is called God's word than in God's deeds. All bibles are man-made.

— Thomas A. Edison

I have read a lot of spiritual works and believe that our body is just a place for the soul to dwell.

— Poonam Dhillon

“Have faith that positive actions lead to positive outcomes.”

— Frank Sonnenberg

I forgive You in advance, You Havn't Offended Me, Aint a Kid Spiritually, call It Spiritual Maturity

— Miles Ethereal

“And really, what is trust other than faith in a clever disguise?”

— Rick R. Reed

“I am a religious by the heart, but an atheist by the mind.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!

— John Owen

An incorrect genre judgment will lead one far astray in interpreting Scripture

— Ron Rhodes

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

— Edouard Vuillard

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

— James Robison

God is playing a role in all religions and that Christians are more united than they sometimes think.

— George O. Wood

You cannot buy loyalty; you cannot buy the devotion of hearts, minds, and souls. You have to earn these things.

— Clarence Francis

Nothing in the world is single, All things by a law divine, In one spirit meet and mingle-Why not I with thine?

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.”

— Bonnie Raitt

Ramadan is, in its essence, a month of humanist spirituality.

— Tariq Ramadan

The Spirit of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

— John G. Lake