Religious Quotes · Page 77

God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal.

— Heidi Baker

“Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT”

— Eddie Johnson

Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion.

— Swami Vivekananda

Everywhere in the world there are tensions - economic, political, religious. So we need chocolate.

— Alain Ducasse

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.

— Sean Durkin

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

While I am very much Jewish 'identified,' I'm not a very religious person.

— Jennifer Gilmore

Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.

— Peter Singer

I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good…

— Jimmy Fallon

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

— Marge Piercy

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

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

I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens "by accident." Each event and adventure is called to your Self…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Hindustan had become free. Pakistan had become independent soon after its inception but man was still slave in both these countries --…

— Saadat Hasan Manto

Whatever littleness and vanity is to be observed in the minds of women, it is, like the cruelty of butchers, a temper…

— William Law

I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to…

— E. O. Wilson

I believe in the theory of evolution, but I believe as well in the allegorical truth of creation theory. In other words,…

— Christopher Langan

Offerings to propitiate the dead then were regarded as belonging to the class of funeral sacrifices, and these are idolatry. Idolatry, in…

— Tertullian

We must stop using the Bible as though it were a potpourri of inerrant proof-texts by which we can bring people into…

— Robert D. Brinsmead

It is the Spirit of Christ in us that will draw satan's fire. The people of the world will not much care…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Lebanon was at one time known as a nation that rose above sectarian hatred; Beirut was known as the Paris of the…

— Roger Ebert

We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of…

— Anonymous

For the Baul, life is not a serious thing. It is fun, it is laughter, it is joy. So you cannot find…

— Rajneesh

“The incentive for a religious person turning into an atheist is to have a better and happier life”

— M.F. Moonzajer

I'm from Columbia, S.C., and my family is very religious. We'd go to church and Sunday school and we always had to…

— Jermaine O'Neal

“I think most religious people experience just as much doubt as they do faith; they just don’t admit it. (13)”

— Elna Baker

In the town of Bethlehem many years ago, a man got religion and he changed the status quo.

— Phil Ochs

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

— Elaine Pagels

“A person is better off for having performed sincere religious acts even when they rest on false premises.”

— John Corvino

There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.

— Helen Hayes

Everybody likes to go their own way–to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

— Jane Austen

“If I had but two loaves of bread, I would sell one and buy hyacinths, for they would feed my soul.”

— Mohammad

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

— Mary Douglas

Students are not to read the Bible, jurors are not to hear it, prosecutors cannot quote from it, and teachers are not…

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

— Ross Douthat

It is impossible to maintain freedom and order and justice without religious and moral sanctions.

— Barry Goldwater

“The world needs more anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.”

— Bede Jarrett

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

— Anonymous

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious…

— William James