Religious Quotes · Page 53

Scripture suggests that meditating on the Word of God can have an always-on effect of peace and strength in difficult times.

— David Jeremiah

It is in struggle and service with our brothers and sisters, individually and collectively, that we find the meaning of life.

— Jesse Jackson

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are to enjoy what we have while we have it, but we are never to get to the point where we…

— Joyce Meyer

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

— George Pell

I certainly saw science as a kind of calling, and one with as much legitimacy as a religious calling.

— Joshua Lederberg

Norman Lear considers almost any Christian who speaks up for and acts on his or her faith to be 'dangerous.'

— Donald Wildmon

Animists are not so much people with a religion as people with a fundamentally religious way of looking at things.

— Daniel Quinn

By obedience a man is guarded against pride. Prayer is given for the sake of obedience. The grace of the Holy Spirit…

— Silouan the Athonite

Arise my soul, and review your deeds which have preceeded from you. Scrutinize them closely, and shed the rain of your tears,…

— Andrew of Crete

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states,…

— Albert Ellis

I, for one, am quite willing to join the 'forgive, forget and move on' crowd, but it does make me wonder if…

— Tony Campolo

Art is viable when it finds elements in the surrounding environment. Our ancestors drew their subject matter from the religious attitudes which…

— Umberto Boccioni

Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Ours was a never a 'religious' religious home because my parents thought of religion as something you do: it's the way you…

— Margrethe Vestager

My grandmother was very important to me. She gave me my religious education. She gave me a sense of the female side…

— Marge Piercy

There have, for years, been comparative studies of religious fanaticism and factors that correlate with it. By and large, it tends to…

— Noam Chomsky

The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but…

— Jessicka

We define religion as the assumption that life has meaning. Religion, or lack of it, is shown not in some intellectual or…

— Rollo May

I have received your letter of the 6th, with the eloquent discourse delivered at the consecration of the Jewish Synagogue. Having ever…

— James Madison

The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and…

— Indira Gandhi

“The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to simply go forward and try to be happy and create a…

— Kristen McMain Oaks

I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the…

— Ayad Akhtar

In a sense, the religious person must have no real views of his own and it is presumptuous of him, in fact,…

— Albert Ellis

“When I stand strong in you I can look beyond the clouds With your words The sun will rise again”

— April Nichole

There are few things more powerful than the faithful prayers of a righteous mother.

— Boyd K. Packer

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

— Thomas Jefferson

Human society has dense borders - economic, religious and cultural - inculcated from an early age. We hate change.

— Alejandro Jodorowsky

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.

— Zubin Mehta

I have no problem with people's religious beliefs. I just don't happen to have any.

— Salman Rushdie

If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice…

— Aristotle

Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is…

— Anonymous

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels…

— Michael Hyatt

The games of the ancient Greeks were, in their original institutions, religious solemnities.

— Dorothea Brande

I am a Christian, but I also don't really see myself as a religious person. I see myself as more of a…

— Haylie Duff

A religious test for entering our country is not reflective of America's fundamental values. I reject it.

— Paul Ryan

Whether you're religious or not, there is a real need for other people's religious positions to be treated with the upmost respect.

— Robert Winston

There is nothing you cannot be, there is nothing you cannot do. There is nothing you cannot have.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

— Joel Hunter

Religious programs, activities have often blurred and sidelined the centrality of the cross - causing religion to be empty of its core.

— Tony Evans