Religious Quotes · Page 86

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.

— George Eliot

Members of weakly religious families get, of course, no religious training from any source outside the family.

— Gregory Bateson

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

— J. G. Stedman

Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me.

— Neale Donald Walsch

Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

— Caroline Fraser

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self…

— John Calvin

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

— Thomas Jefferson

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which…

— Wilfrid Laurier

My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any…

— Susan Sontag

Just the idea that you are religious doesn't help at all. It does not help you; it does not help others. In…

— Thubten Yeshe

One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see…

— Andrew Garfield

I am convinced that America can be turned around if we will all get serious about the Master's business. It may be…

— Jerry Falwell

However, I think the major opposition to ecology has deeper roots than mere economics; ecology threatens widely held values so fundamental that…

— Garrett Hardin

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to…

— Maximus the Confessor

Although the far territory of the extreme can exert an intoxicating pull on susceptible individuals of all bents, extremism seems to be…

— Jon Krakauer

The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little…

— William Cowper Brann

It's when people begin using their religion as just a way of getting power over other people that scares me. I'm afraid…

— Octavia Butler

I've been really happy to be in that conversation with Scott [Derrickson] for a few months now. We started chewing this cud…

— Tilda Swinton

Of course, if one's reading Kierkegaard for personal interest that's fine - but it's sloppy scholarship just to cherry pick what suits…

— George Pattison

In the United States the sovereign authority is religious, and consequently hypocrisy must be common; but there is no country in the…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Donohue: "It is Christianity that [Manson] hates, and it is Catholicism that he hates most of all. This guy is at war…

— Marilyn Manson

I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States,…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

I took solace in my relationship with God who, along with my dog, was my best friend growing up.

— Lisa Bonet

Heavy rain showers reminds me of challenges in Life. Never ask for lighter rain, Instead pray for a better umbrella

— Religious Folk

Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

— Russell M. Nelson

It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.

— Bill Watterson

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

— Anonymous

Any revelation that does not bring us into greater encounter only trains us to be more religious.

— Bill Johnson

There are many very educated people who are religious, but they're not creationists.

— Richard Dawkins

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest…

— Marty Robbins

God is love (1 John 4:8, 16) and God is sovereign (Acts 4:24). Those biblical truths must define our response to every circumstance in life.

— David Jeremiah

Men who pray are, in reality, the only religious men, and it takes a full-measured man to pray.

— Edward McKendree Bounds

Fly with me, touch the face of the true God. And then cry with joy at the depth of my love.

— PJ Harvey

If you don't have time for God, nothing is going to work out right in your life.

— Anonymous

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

— Bill Maher

I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.

— John Green

We think of prayer as a preparation for work, or a calm after having done work, whereas prayer is the essential work.

— Oswald Chambers

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero