Religious Quotes · Page 117

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

— Mark Twain

"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the…

— Theophan the Recluse

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

— Sam Harris

In the public realm, secularism should not concede a single inch to religious intrusions.

— Gad Saad

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

— Bob Goff

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include…

— Jeremy Rifkin

In novels like 'Kaaterskill Falls', I've been able to write sympathetically about religious people - and beyond that, I've been able to…

— Allegra Goodman

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few…

— Moustapha Akkad

Inasmuch as you pray with all your soul for the one who has slandered you, so much will God reveal the truth…

— Maximus the Confessor

He was extremely reticent in his religious sentiments, at least in all that he wrote. Allusions to his belief are rarely, if…

— Daniel Coit Gilman

My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of…

— Preston Manning

God cares about you and your needs. Bring them to Him in a spirit of worship and thanksgiving, knowing that He is…

— David Jeremiah

I was an altar boy, I took catechism classes and religion classes, and I prayed a lot as a child. My family…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…

— Sam Harris

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of…

— Philip Schaff

Widen your shriveled heart, make the interests of others your own and serve them as much as you can by sympathy, kindness,…

— Anandamayi Ma

You know, on the spectrum of religious belief, there is atheism - these are people that don't believe. There's theism - these…

— Vincent Bugliosi

If anyone does not believe that Holy Mary is the Mother of God, he is severed from the Godhead. If anyone should…

— Gregory of Nazianzus

The Lord has given the Holy Spirit upon the earth, and in whomsoever He dwells, that one feels paradise within himself. You…

— Silouan the Athonite

The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible…

— John Stuart Mill

He keeps my eyes open to giving and recieving. Not only in material things but by using kind words to others and…

— Anonymous

“Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.”

— Christopher Hitchens

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part…

— Jack Nicholson

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

— Bill Bright

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

— Sukhwinder Singh

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

— Tim Crane

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

— Ann Voskamp

Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.

— Joseph Campbell

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

— Ibn Taymiyyah

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

— George Carlin

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

— Billy Sunday

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment…

— James Montgomery Boice

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

— Jon Ronson