Religion Quotes · Page 616

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.

— Demosthenes

There are grave difficulties on every hand, and more are looming ahead. Therefore, we must go forward.

— William Carey

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion, it will cease to be free for religion.

— Robert Jackson

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

— David A. Bednar

The heart stays the same, the body changes but the spirit stays forever youthful.

— Kim Wayans

“Resist faith. Resist trust. Believe only in what you touch with your hands. The rest is error and air.”

— Brian Staveley

“You get into a conversation with a preacher, he’s got to preach.”

— Jo Maeder

I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The contraction of theological influence has been at once the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The fact of our salvation being not something, but Someone, produces quietness of spirit and an unshakable confidence.

— Herbert Lockyer

Long before I realized I was exploring something, that I was looking to develop something in myself, I was just naturally drawn…

— Barnet Bain

I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I…

— Elaine Pagels

Few know the joys that spring from a disinterested curiosity. It is like a cheerful spirit that leads us through worlds filled…

— John Lancaster Spalding

“ONE OF THE most pernicious effects of religion is that it tends to divorce morality from the reality of human and animal…

— Sam Harris

“Could we kiss for a little bit? ... Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Liberals want the family destroyed, they want religion destroned, because then you have loyalty directly to the state.

— Ann Coulter

Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with…

— Steven Curtis Chapman

She knew this music--knew it down to the very core of her being--but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had…

— Charles de Lint

“The truth that there is an infinite, eternal, and personal mind behind the realities of the universe that can be detected through…

— Kenneth Samples

Those so-called records in the Bible were written by devout ecclesiasts who wanted to believe, and wanted others to believe, in the…

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Unfortunately, religions have become a part of the problem instead of part of the solution. We have fought our wars in the…

— Edgar Mitchell

“Even a cursory reading of the Bible is sufficient to recognize that the Bible is a treasury replete with a wide variety…

— Hank Hanegraaff

It is a great tragedy when those who are afflicted with adversity or a source of hopelessness turn their backs on prayer.…

— David S. Baxter

“Religion robs the soul of its independence; patriotism is the stupid worship of the world for which the well-being and the peace…

— Emma Goldman

Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.

— Francis Schaeffer

Love is when a man wipes your tears, even after you left Him hanging on the cross for your sins.à

— Anonymous

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

— Allan Bloom

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

— Henry David Thoreau

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

— Dan Rather

“When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-”

— Stephen King

“The law you submit to uncritically indicates your religious commitment.”

— Joseph C. Morecraft III

“RELIGION is like a rocket. Use it to raise your consciousness only. Drop it when you are in your ORBIT.”

— Nishant Dutt

Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Spiritual advancement is measured by faithful obedience.

— Watchman Nee

Europe and the world are waiting for us to defend the spirit of the enlightenment everywhere.

— Emmanuel Macron

God has given us the gift of faith that we can take what's unseen and make it part of who we are.

— David Jeremiah

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You must have faith in yourself before you have faith in anyone else.”

— Ronnie Riggar

Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a hard one.

— Anonymous

It is against the spirit of ahimsa to overawe even one person into submission.

— Mahatma Gandhi