Religion Quotes · Page 560

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

— Lydia Sigourney

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

— Max Muller

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

— Anonymous

He who is ever ready to live through difficulties with a calm spirit is never wrong, but always strong.

— Terry Mark

“The faith of a religious hypocrite can only be increased through backbiting!”

— Fahad Basheer

“The greatest life is to love thy God with all your heart in obedient faith.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

— Doreen Virtue

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which…

— Phillips Brooks

“To read of the unrelenting coarseness and brutality of the boy’s father is lowering to the spirit, as is the shame he…

— Christopher Hitchens

The whole point of Christianity is that everyone in the world, from Charles Manson to Mother Teresa, deserves to go to hell.

— Sean Ningen

“Without freedom, the family and faith cannot survive. Without faith, we will see freedom and family languish. And without family, man will…

— Kevin Swanson

One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without…

— Seyyed Hossein Nasr

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

— Susan Jacoby

“You'll thread upon this earth without a destination, but once you tune your frequency of spirituality,your source renders fortune and priviledges”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“We’ve spent centuries moving them away from that word virtue and especially The Virtues and that’s precisely how we did it —by…

— Geoffrey Wood

This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite…

— Abbott Eliot Kittredge

I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing…

— Noah Feldman

Desire, when it stems from the heart and spirit, when it is pure and intense, possesses awesome electromagnetic energy. This energy is…

— Anonymous

“Freedom from all types of pain and misery is the exact (proper) religion. It is exact (proper) religion when egoism departs and…

— Dada Bhagwan

In some ways, Herbert Hoover can be considered a millennial in spirit: young at the turn of the century, aware of America's…

— Margaret Hoover

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed…

— Cliff Stearns

“While I paid, they exchanged some pieties on how everyone has his or her own beliefs, et cetera. Then the woman said,…

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language,…

— Eugene H. Peterson

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

— Peter Jennings

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

— John Piper

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

— Vita Sackville-West

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“People hear that you grew up religious, and they can’t imagine you’d have a complex relationship with faith.”

— Victor LaValle

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

— Philip Schaff

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

— Jill Briscoe

“wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

— Anonymous

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

— F. Murray Abraham

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

— Bikram Choudhury

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

— Dolly Parton

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

— Brad Pitt

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

— Richard Francis Burton

We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

— Catherine Doherty