Religion Quotes · Page 576

I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.

— Albert Einstein

“Lily's spirit neediness expressed itself raw as a kerosene blaze in the material world.”

— Charles Frazier

“Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.”

— Kamand Kojouri

We just could not have the Church of Jesus Christ without the spirit of missionary work.

— LeGrand Richards

What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit

— Chief Seattle

Of all religions, Christianity is without a doubt the one that should inspire tolerance most

— Voltaire

The spirit world doesn't admit to communicating with me, so it's fairly even.

— Howard Nemerov

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.

— Sean O'Casey

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more…

— John Piper

Art among a religious race produces relics; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

The values imposed on you, such as statism, motherland, religion, traditions etc - are the instruments to manipulate you. Don't idolize the…

— Ilkin Santak

“I never completely understood the phrase, "I took my medicine religiously", unless of course it was a religion I was unfamiliar with!!”

— Neil Leckman

Writers around the world protested when two Communist writers, Siniavski and Daniel, were sentenced to prison by their own comrades. But not…

— Richard Wurmbrand

“couldn’t give two fucks about what you want. So I rely on faith. Faith that I’ll make it through this and find”

— Corinne Michaels

Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are…

— John Steinbeck

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from…

— Thomas Jefferson

“So there goes Jesus spinning power on its head again. His power was not in crushing but in being crushed, triumphing over…

— Shane Claiborne

All spiritual prayers have their source in God. God makes known to us what we ought to pray by unfolding to us…

— Watchman Nee

I was told to challenge every spiritual teacher, every world leader to utter the one sentence that no religion, no political party,…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I think that every country presents its own particular challenges, different cultures, different histories, different religions, different people. And different ethnic make-ups…

— Rahm Emanuel

My hope is that a religious consciousness will begin to rise, one based on enhancing humanity, grasping life in all of its…

— John Shelby Spong

The Conspiracy Theory of Society... [is] a typical result of the secularization of a religious superstition. The belief in the Homeric gods…

— Karl Popper

“Look at our fathers in the old days, living masterpieces as they are and shining examples of true religion; and see how…

— Thomas à Kempis

In religious matters a traveller loses nothing by civility.

— James Branch Cabell

Why do Tea Party backers oppose abortion at higher rates than their traditional GOP cohort? Religion.

— Ari Melber

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

— Blaise Pascal

Allow me to offer a simple definition of wisdom. Wisdom is looking at life from God's point of view.

— Charles R. Swindoll

“Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated.”

— Voltaire

Come spirit, help us sing the story of our land. -Pocahontas

— Pocahontas

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

— Damien Hirst

“Jesus didn't die as a frustrated failed revolutionary. His death was the revolution.”

— William H. Willimon

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

— Vita Sackville-West

Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.

— Nathaniel Branden

America is not dying because of the strength of humanism but the weakness of evangelism.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“He (her son) is just like his father, doesn't listen to a word I say!”

— Logan Crowe

“obsequious submissiveness to the religious authorities, and ultimately to Geneva.”

— Philip Pullman

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

— Immanuel Kant

We are standing on the threshold of a world-epoch of religious creativeness, on a cosmic divide.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.

— Jeff Smith