Religious Quotes · Page 118

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

— Nancy Pearcey

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

— Chris Lilley

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

— Jean Cocteau

The backwardness of our religious and social developments is undoubtedly holding back the development of the intellectual and political levels.

— Carroll Quigley

I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective…

— Dave Smalley

Please clean your plate dear, the Lord above can see ya. Don't you know people are starving in Korea.

— Alice Cooper

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

— Henry Fuseli

My work in television is part of my ministry. My ministry is not religious at all - it's part of my life…

— Jeannie Mai

Christmas: It's the only religious holiday that's also a federal holiday. That way, Christians can go to their services, and everyone else…

— Samantha Bee

“Undoubtedly the most important source of religion is fear; this can be seen in the present day, since anything that causes alarm…

— Bertrand Russell

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life…

— Jonathan Sacks

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really…

— Sally Quinn

Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so…

— Joel Coen

Fudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I'm not religious, but…

— James Lovelock

All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to…

— Swami Vivekananda

I think there's a real danger that Islamophobia can actually be a cover for something far more malign. I don't want to…

— Sadakat Kadri

Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The Weaver My life is but a weaving between my Lord and me; I cannot choose the colors He worketh steadily. Oft…

— Benjamin Malachi Franklin

[My grandmother] was the assistant pastor at Palma Ceia Baptist Church in Hayward - my grandmother, Evie Goines. And so my mother…

— Mahershala Ali

To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value,…

— William James

“Human psychology is that anything you do in a group feels right. People as a group can kill someone and call it…

— Shunya

In Western lands there is a distinct division between the religious and the secular life. There is one rule of conduct for…

— Virchand Gandhi

I am religious by nature, I'm not a nihilist. I don't follow, I don't even know what the tenets of things like…

— Mark Helprin

Even if the civil magistrate is so gifted as to prophesy in the church, yet in the sphere of his civil duties…

— Roger Williams

“Religious programming has the power to distort normal, natural and intensely pleasurable behavior into something inconceivably disgusting.”

— Darrel Ray

We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.

— George Carey

One of the signs that you may not grasp the unique, radical nature of the gospel is that you are certain that…

— Timothy Keller

“the more educated and financially successful, the less religious a person is likely to be.”

— Darrel Ray

When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.

— Marcus Eremita

Reagan was conservative, but he didn't approach global management with an unbending religious zeal.

— Randall Robinson

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

— Sam Ervin

The days of discriminating against religious institutions simply because they are religious must come to an end.

— George W. Bush

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

— Edmund Burke

At this very moment, God’s working behind the scenes in your life, arranging things in your favor. Stay in faith!

— Joel Osteen

We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

— David Barton

“These hands will never go away they will scoop you up at anytime anytime that you want to be loved”

— April Nichole

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

— Hector Hugh Munro

There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.

— C. H. Dodd

What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to…

— Therese of Lisieux

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

— Tom Petty