Religious Quotes · Page 88

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos

The materialist assumption that spiritual substances do not exist is as much an act of faith as the religious belief in the…

— Mortimer Adler

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

— Neale Donald Walsch

She said, tell me, are you a Christian, child? I said, Ma'am, I am tonight.

— Marc Cohn

“Knowing that you knew everything about us before we were born Lord, your love is amazing”

— April Nichole

The secular and religious Left find it convenient to demonize politically conservative Christians.

— Ronald H. Nash

“Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way! Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.”

— Chaim Potok

Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other…

— Martin Luther

Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that…

— Walter Rauschenbusch

I just want to remind us all there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious, who get enriched…

— Bill Nye

The fact that Newton and Michael Faraday and other scientists of the past were deeply religious shows that religious skepticism is not…

— Steven Weinberg

While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has…

— Sam Harris

I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get…

— John D. Rockefeller

A religious college in Cairo is considering issues of nanotechnology: If replicators are used to prepare a copy of a strip of…

— Charles Stross

“No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to…

— Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Seek the simplest in all things, in food, clothing, without being ashamed of poverty. For a great part of the world lives…

— Gennadius of Constantinople

I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed…

— John Kennedy Toole

On the other hand, heroism is basic to the character of the Nordic peoples. This heroism of the ancient mythic period and…

— Alfred Rosenberg

And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an…

— Karen Armstrong

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial…

— Edward Said

Take away material prosperity; take away emotional highs; take away miracles and healing; take away fellowship with other believers; take away church;…

— Mike Mason

By the 1970s, pornography had caught up with The Block, where performers were totally in the nude. I wasn't going to do…

— Blaze Starr

Why did the consensus of Christian churches not only accept these astonishing views but establish them as the only true form of…

— Elaine Pagels

Western humanism has religious and transcendent sources without which it is incomprehensible to itself.

— Jacques Maritain

There is MORE POWER in one word from GOD than all the power of ENEMIES Combined!

— Andrew Guzaldo

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The greatest Jihad is to battle your own soul, to fight the evil within yourself.”

— Prophet Muhammad (SAW

Let us live most happily, free from hatred in the midst of the hateful; Let us remain free from hatred in the…

— Gautama Buddha

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

— Mark Twain

Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be…

— Marcus Eremita

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

— Alan Watts

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

— Anthony Jeselnik

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”

— Kentetsu Takamori

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a…

— Will Herberg

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

— Jay Sekulow

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

— Timothy Keller

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

— Bob Hawke