Religious Quotes

This is a Christian nation.

— Harry S. Truman

“Never praise oneself.”

— Bhagwan Swaminarayan

Immerse your soul in love.

— Thom Yorke

“Genius is religious.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is no danger than doubt.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I was a very religious child.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I am without religious feeling.

— Charles Sumner

All neurotics seek the religious

— Carl Jung

I do fear male religious fanatics and accountants and retirement plans.

— Michele Lamy

As a child, I was deeply religious and went to church every Sunday.

— Sheila Hancock

I want to change my circumstances. God wants to change me.

— Rick Warren

Have confidence. Return. Invoke our Lady and you'll be faithful.

— Josemaria Escriva

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

— Bob Dylan

“A righteous husband is a responsible husband.”

— Habeeb Akande

Heaven knows, it's not the way it could be.

— Donna Summer

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

— Donna Mills

The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbours.

— Jonathan Sacks

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

— Charles Spurgeon

Affliction strengthens the vigor of our soul, whereas happiness weakens it.

— Pope Gregory I

It is so human a book that I don't see how belief in its divine authority can survive the reading of it.

— William James

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my…

— John Frusciante

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of…

— Maximus the Confessor

“There is nothing behind the curtains of religions, people put there whatever their imaginations can fathom”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“I don't know what I am, but I wouldn't want a faith that couldn't handle facts.”

— Pat Barker

[There is a] depth and urgency of the search of Jewish and Christian women for connection to the Divine, which found expression…

— Gerda Lerner

If you see your brother in need, it doesn't matter if you already gave somewhere else. You should be open to the…

— Andy Stanley

I think that [Jay] Gould's separate compartments was a purely political ploy to win middle-of-the-road religious people to the science camp. But…

— Richard Dawkins

If an American teenager were to come to Lahore, they'd have wildly different experiences depending on whom they met. They could party…

— Mohsin Hamid

It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking…

— Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4).…

— Charles Hodge

I am well aware that there are prisoners of conscience in the Soviet Union, including some who have said they have chosen…

— Billy Graham

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for…

— African Spir

In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it…

— David Starkey

I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive.…

— Huston Smith

In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean…

— Bernard Lewis

Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are…

— Richard Rohr

I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim…

— Barack Obama

Since Jimmy Carter, religious fundamentalists play a major role in elections. He was the first president who made a point of exhibiting…

— Noam Chomsky

If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance…

— Maximus the Confessor

I believe the greatest trick of the devil is not to get us into some sort of evil but rather have us…

— Donald Miller