Religious Quotes · Page 113

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

— Mitch Albom

Ask God to give you the strength to endure, and rest assured, He will take care of you.

— Joel Osteen

Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's house is a place of peace.

— Max Lucado

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

— Katharine Hepburn

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy…

— Martin Luther

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

— Marquis de Sade

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

— Gary DeMar

Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the…

— Terence McKenna

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when…

— Walter Scott

The fear of God illumines the soul, annihilates evil, weakens the passions, drives darkness from the soul and makes it pure. The…

— Ephrem the Syrian

I feel it is far better to begin with God, to see His face first, to get my soul near Him before…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

When you say religious, a gate goes down in people's minds that have sensitivities to that word - for whatever reason, whatever…

— Jonathan Roumie

Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He…

— H. L. Mencken

When you have increased migration of peoples and ethnic and religious minorities, you develop a set of rules and language the larger…

— Samuel P. Huntington

It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better…

— Mark Twain

What I find more remarkable, however, is how readily many people in our society believe outlandish and unsubstantiated urban myths and conspiracies…

— Mary C. Neal

Resolved, That we especially protest against this present attempt to force all the people to follow the religious dictates of a part…

— Ellen Battelle Dietrick

Faith, then, is not a set of beliefs about the world. It is rather found in the loving embrace of the world.…

— Peter Rollins

A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to…

— Israel Shenker

I think Bergman's films have eternal relevance, because they deal with the difficulty of personal relationships and lack of communication between people…

— Woody Allen

My suspicion is that those who seem oblivious to suffering, whether it is nearby or in remote corners, are for the most…

— Noam Chomsky

We have battled in America since the century's turn to bring to nothing any and all Christian influences and we are succeeding.…

— Kenneth Goff

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every…

— James A. Garfield

People aren't religious because it's easy not to be. Like anything, it's habitual, and once it's a habit it's no longer hard.

— Matisyahu

I was never really into any kind of hard-core religious structure or dogma.

— Beth Hart

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

— Emile Durkheim

Very few minds are strictly normal, and all religious fanatics are marked with abnormalities of various sorts.

— H. P. Lovecraft

The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her…

— Robert Graves

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

— Irena Sendler

My God is not a religious God. My God is nature, my God is everything there is. That's God. Everything is God.…

— Alice Walker

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

— Van Morrison

Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.

— D. H. Lawrence

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and…

— Ridgely Torrence

The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.

— Charles Spurgeon

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or…

— Malcolm X

I was quite old school and religious, keeping all my fasts and would prefer to spend my time in temples.

— Supriya Pathak

The Kingdom of God is not a matter of getting individuals to heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it.

— Leonard Ravenhill

The Bible is a human product: it tells us how our religious ancestors saw things, not how God sees things

— Anonymous