Religion Quotes · Page 609

We must go beyond the intellect and find recourse in pure intelligence, which is spirit and movement.

— Deepak Chopra

“That which holds us and does not let us fall is dharma (religion).”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Don't expect people to understand your purpose when God didn't give them your vision.”

— Turcois Ominek

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

— Salman Rushdie

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion.

— Abraham Lincoln

True religion is when you serve God to get nothing else but more of God.

— J. D. Greear

It is Spiritually impossible to hide and see at the same time.

— Guy Finley

“Logic will get you nowhere if it’s faith you’re after.”

— Shulem Deen

I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is…

— Christopher Hitchens

A pure, sincere, and stable spirit is not distracted though it be employed in many works; for that it works all to…

— Thomas a Kempis

For any state, I'm not going to recognize its rights to be a state with a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis…

— Zohran Mamdani

My spiritual connection is about embracing everything around me. We're all the same. There are no boundaries . . .

— Donna Karan

“I don’t think faith is positive, because faith means belief without evidence, and you shouldn’t believe anything without evidence. ["The Daily Show"…

— Richard Dawkins

“They haven't eliminated religion from the public school. They have eliminated Christianity and have replaced it with an anti-God religion—humanism.”

— Ken Ham

All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.

— Tennessee Williams

That is the essence and mission of 'rebel buddha': to free us from the illusions we create by ourselves, about ourselves, and…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“Countries with a high percentage of nonbelievers are among the freest, most stable, best-educated, and healthiest nations on earth. When nations are…

— Greg Graffin

In every Christian's Heart, there is a cross and a throne, and the Christian is on the throne till he puts himself…

— Anonymous

I'm not against religion in the sense that I feel I can't tolerate it, but I think written into the rubric of…

— Ian Mcewan

No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America…

— Rod Parsley

“Yet the sources of their fanaticism are left undefined. The “last night” letter of the terrorists is posted on a wall, but…

— Anonymous

Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. Among the…

— Abraham Lincoln

The merit of the cross does not consist in its heaviness, but in the manner in which we carry it. I would…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to…

— Richard Rohr

John was closest of all to Paul; their relationship was very complex.

— Cynthia Lennon

To die for a religion is easier than to live it absolutely.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

— Max Irons

I love the expression that 'When your Bible is falling apart, the man isn't.'

— Jordin Sparks

“All ministry must be God-centered, but it must also be man-purposed.”

— Samuel Waldron

Rule of religion: purpose breathes even in dirt and stones.

— Mason Cooley

What all the basic religions are saying is this: Don't do anything that isn't play.

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

Pray to God that He might create is us a clean heart and renew a right spirit within us.

— Felix Mendelssohn

There's biology in everything, even when you're feeling spiritual.

— Helen Fisher

“Music is a system of proportions in the service of a spiritual impulse.”

— Richard Powers

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

— Dean M. Davies

Faith in God helped black Americans endure slavery and Jim Crow.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine

— Emily Saliers

The teachings of the Church line up more with the Democratic Party than the Republican Party.

— James Carville

Only he who possesses a personal religion, an original view of infinity, can be an artist.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else.

— Jack Kornfield