Religion Quotes · Page 239

“The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.”

— Voltaire

Health to me is an overall mind, body, and kind of spirit thing.

— LeAnn Rimes

Art is what remains of religion: the dance above the yawning abyss.

— Octavio Paz

Religion can be the enemy of God. It's often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

— Bono

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

— William P. Leahy

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is “What do these stories mean?

— Reza Aslan

Some Churches are heated and cooled 365 days a year. As homeless soldiers lay in alleys and bushes quite near.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Living your purpose will require a HUGE amount of faith, courage, tenacity and perseverance.

— Mastin Kipp

Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the christian religion.

— Noah Webster

I'll live for me and for other real people. Until some god gives me five minutes of their time...they deserve none of…

— Matt Dillahunty

Here's the simplest answer: Within weeks, the disciples proclaimed the resurrection of Jesus Christ, that He had been bodily raised from the…

— Josh McDowell

I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion…

— Taslima Nasrin

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes,…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

“The ground of faith is not the sufficiency of the visible means for the performance of the promise, but the all-sufficiency of…

— Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Fifteen years of skepticism has done more for me than 20 years of force-fed religion and 30 years of indifference in between.

— Victor J. Stenger

The skill set of pastor and comedian are incredibly similar. You want to affect people. You're good at reading rooms. You're persuasive,…

— Pete Holmes

God in His answers to prayer often says "Yes." Sometimes He says "Wait." Often He says "No." In any case, His will…

— Norman Vincent Peale

I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds…

— Seth MacFarlane

I think joy and sweetness and affection are a spiritual path. We're here to know God, to love and serve God, and…

— Anne Lamott

“Rather than experiencing the richness of a dynamic, intimate relationship with the righteous One, you put God in a little box that…

— Craig Groeschel

The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom…

— Andrew Sullivan

“Christians are easily ensnared by the coerciveness of other gods: Americanism, and the inherent legalism associated with it, being a good example.…

— Gale Heide

“When we fully know in our hearts who we are as living beings, not only emotionally, psychologically, politically, or socially, we can…

— Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

“Instead of thinking those who don't share your passions are not 'real Christians,' recognize the beauty of diversity within the body of…

— Holly Sprink

I think you could say every pastor is writing this book [ Max on Life]; for many it just never gets published.

— Max Lucado

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

— Bill Maher

Religion is like a pair of shoes¦Find one that fits for you, but dont make me wear your shoes.

— Hannah

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States.

— Anthony Lewis

He who thinks to save anything by his religion, besides his soul, will be a loser in the end.

— Joel Barlow

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The trilogy composed of politics, religion and sex is the most sensitive of all issues in any society.

— Nawal El Saadawi

If we began deconstructing the myths at the heart of every religion, we would be citizens of a Marxian Utopia.

— Barkha Dutt

The leadership spirit comes with a spirit of leadership.

— Myles Munroe

Of all joyful, smiling, ever-laughing experiences, there are none like those which spring from true religion.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Religion is man's way of relating to God; Jesus Christ is God's Way of relating to man.

— Mark Schumaker

Renewal and revival often begin when young people take a stand for God.

— Jim Burns

The Bible has been a bestseller for centuries. Why should I let two thousand years of publicity go to waste?

— Cecil B. DeMille

God created man in his own image. And man, being a gentleman, returned the favor.

— Henri Rousseau

God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.

— John Stuart Mill

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

— Pope Benedict XVI