Religion Quotes · Page 965

But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught…

— Kathleen Norris

“You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront…

— Jim Stockdale

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

— John Piper

Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion.

— T. S. Eliot

The purpose of faith isn't always to keep us from having trouble. It is often to carry us through trouble. If we…

— Joyce Meyer

The competitive spirit of basketball is slowly leaking out. Taking pride in one-on-one defense is slowly leaking out. It's more about selling…

— DeMarcus Cousins

I always see the glass half full. I see the beauty in others, and I see the hope for tomorrow. If we…

— Craig Sager

There should be resolutions adopted in top international institutions, which are binding on all states and governments in the world, to forbid…

— Hassan Nasrallah

“Humility is the product of ongoing repentance as one decides against, turns from, and by watching and praying seeks to steer clear…

— J.I. Packer

“The nature of the Hebrew Bible and traditional Judaism, if we insist upon using Latin terms, is orthoprax, which literally means correct…

— Jeffrey Radon

This is my living faith, an active faith, a faith of verbs: to question, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run, dance, play, eat,…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“Dreams of the proud man, making great And greater ever, Things which are not of God. In wide And devious coverts, hunter-wise,…

— Euripides

“Eugene Peterson has said, “American culture is stubbornly resistant to the way of Jesus.”5 The culture is strongly individualistic; the church is…

— Bill Hull

The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not.…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“I couldn’t figure out if it was fate or faith that had brought me there. How funny those two words sounded when…

— Jay Grewal

The Gospel of Thomas claims to be the secret sayings of Jesus. There are 114 of them, so it says many things,…

— Elaine Pagels

I treasure the Bible. I live in it and work on it all the time. But it is not the word of…

— John Shelby Spong

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely…

— Laura Mulvey

When I saw the generosity of spirit of the people who live in America and their willingness to give second chances, it…

— Yu Darvish

“We are no more secure in Christ with a strong faith than with a small faith, so long as that small faith…

— Jared C. Wilson

The greatest create of power you have on earth, whether you are an angel, a spirit, a man or woman or child…

— Anne Rice

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Society has completely purged God from the building, from the equation and because of it we're headed toward a rabbit hole that's…

— Mark Robinson

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within…

— Anonymous

They're the problems of poverty, of the rights of the individual, of the changes brought about by technology. They're the ones that…

— Indira Gandhi

I'm so incredibly tired of giving respect to a lot of delusions and crazy ideas just because they are regarded as religions.

— Bjorn Ulvaeus

There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic.

— Dalai Lama

In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it…

— Hillary Clinton

Zen is the fastest method I know of, aside from mysticism, of dissolving the fixations people have about spiritual practice and themselves.

— Frederick Lenz

“She now saw that she wanted a boy to do more than follow her in blind devotion. She wanted a boy to…

— Anna Godbersen

“spirituality does not have to be a scary, excluding, or arcane process, but instead that a spiritual life is a never-ending quest…

— Daniel D. Maurer

Maybe it wasn't anything remotely to do with religion, mysticism or metaphilosophy after all; maybe it was more banal; maybe it was…

— Iain Banks

The Secretary-General must be a determined advocate for the values of tolerance and solidarity - universal values that are shared by cultures…

— Antonio Guterres

“Fear is undoubtedly the most weakening emotion. A fearful person has no ability to protect their personal space and that includes their…

— Michelle Frost

There is always a pressure to separate the Bible from science and to separate the Christian religion from things material.

— Walter Lang

“And I know what the Bible says—that faith is the substance of things not seen, the evidence of things hoped for.”

— Tim LaHaye

The cynic about human nature might say that religious morality is an effective way of keeping people in line. The threat of…

— Richard Dawkins

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

— Pope Pius XII

“Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them.…

— John Paul Warren

The Holy Spirit in enabling the already-justified believers to live with moral energy and will so that they really do please God…

— N. T. Wright