Religion Quotes · Page 235

A miracle is not the breaking of physical laws, but rather represents laws which are incomprehensible to us.

— G. I. Gurdjieff

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.”

— William Faulkner

“Communism is Christianity castrated by Ockham's Razor.”

— Israel Shamir

When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

— Laurence Sterne

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only he can be an artist who has a religion all his own - an original way of viewing infinity.

— Vincent Van Gogh

If the Bible is what it claims to be, how can we allow it to remain on a bookshelf?

— Steven J Lawson

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

— Michel de Montaigne

“A religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths or any type of literary device in order to…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

— Oscar Fernandes

“civic, secular, nationalist frame of reference (devoid of any religious underpinnings) would face immense challenges in today's highly religious Egyptian society.”

— Tarek Osman

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are are spiritual beings immersed in a spiritual experience”

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Anti-intellectualism has spawned an irrelevant gospel. Today, we share the gospel primarily as a means of addressing felt needs.

— J.P. Moreland

The doubters are always more blessed than the mere fellow travelers in faith. For they are the only ones who fully learn…

— Helmut Thielicke

When you're in prison, you either embrace religion or you reject it. I embraced it it was a very spiritual time for…

— Henrique Capriles Radonski

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make…

— Anonymous

“Studying a book that was finished nearly two thousand years ago may appear to some like an interesting but somewhat impractical pursuit.…

— John Snyder

“The one great advantage of Bhakti is that it is the easiest and most natural way to reach the great divine end…

— Swami Vivekananda

... the Lord's Cross discloses the entire dispensation of His Coming in the flesh, and contains within it the whole mystery of…

— Gregory Palamas

If you can frame climate change as an alternate religion, or as one more of those issues where the pointy-headed liberal atheist…

— Katharine Hayhoe

Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion…

— Pauline Hanson

“The spiritual things that you may not be able to see and feel are just as real as the things you can.…

— Molly Friedenfeld

Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness…

— Plato

The Hellenistic world was international to a degree, polyglot and inspired by many religious faiths. ...the Greek ideals were pagan and the…

— George Sarton

When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

— Tullian Tchividjian

“Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Exercise your faith, or you won't have the muscles when it's time to fight.

— Anonymous

What the church is really concerned about is what endures.

— Donald Wuerl

When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.

— Charles Fillmore

The Bible teaches that history began in the Middle East, and someday history will end in the Middle East.

— Billy Graham

If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it.

— Gautama Buddha

“You must worship the Self in Krishna, not Krishna as Krishna.”

— Swami Vivekananda

“The apologist can ask what literature and film reveal about the inchoate theological stirrings of our times.”

— Andrew Davison

We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.

— Charles Spurgeon

We don't dictate your religious views, so why dictate our sexuality

— Ryan Davies

Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

— Thomas Hardy

“Cosmopolitanism starts from the _singular_ individual rather than the _faceless_ collective”

— Namsoon Kang

Every dimension of the gospel is relevant to one or more of our social and political problems of our time.

— Neal A. Maxwell

The only future is intentional Catholicism, evangelical Catholicism.

— George Weigel