Religion Quotes · Page 270

I can't imagine falling in love with a devoutly religious person.

— Susan Jacoby

God listens not to your words save when He Himself utters them through your lips.

— Anonymous

I think it's really important to create spiritual revolutionaries.

— Beryl Bender Birch

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

— James A. Michener

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

— H. L. Mencken

A religion that cannot stand a little laughter must be a very rotten one.

— Charles Spurgeon

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

— Max Planck

“Real success always contains an unseen essential of deep spirituality.”

— Bryant McGill

“What says Christ doesn't return today and His most faithful followers don't turn around and have Him crucified again (if that were…

— D.R. Silva

“Well, science and religion are not competitors, they’re two different languages trying to tell the same story. There’s room in this world…

— Dan Brown

Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against…

— Carl Sagan

A man of faith will remain steadfast to truth even though the whole world might appear to be enveloped in falsehood.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Authentic Christian Preaching carries a note of authority and a demand for decisions not found elsewhere in society.

— Albert Mohler

“If we are to progress in the spiritual walk so that the Disciplines are a blessing and not a curse, we must…

— Richard J. Foster

Baptism with water is the sign and seal of baptism with the Spirit, as much as it is of the forgiveness of…

— John Stott

For those who may not find happiness to exercise religious faith, it's okay to remain a radical atheist; it's absolutely an individual…

— Dalai Lama

The concept of neutrality can lead to a brooding and pervasive devotion to the secular and a passive, or even active, hostility…

— Arthur Goldberg

I think that if we follow in the path of Christ, and love the world - actually love people, there is no…

— Reese Roper

“a generation of permanent cripples, failed seekers, who never understood the essential old-mystic fallacy of the Acid Culture: the desperate assumption that…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The Christian church [in its true identity] does not persecute; any more than a lily scratches the thorns, or a lamb pursues…

— Roger Williams

“Cultural wisdom says 'Don't quit your day job.' Yet I think these desires represent our psyche's stretch toward wholeness. And to be…

— Mary Rose O'Reilley

“It’s sad to say, but not every employee of a church is a Christian, and each quarter I terminate those whose purpose…

— Genevieve Woods

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible…

— Caroline Myss

Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Thus, faith in Christ is not a onetime event; we must live by faith each day.”

— Derek W.H. Thomas

“The corrupt are into rituals, whereas the virtuous are spiritual.”

— Abhaidev

He who has art and science also has religion, but those who do not have them better have religion.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The proof of how real Jesus knew hell to be is that He came to earth to save us from it.

— Peter Marshall

“The people who claim to be the most spiritual are usually the least so.”

— Steve Maraboli

“In all works of faith we may count upon Jesus’ fellowship.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“Tolerance for other faiths gives us a deeper understanding of our own.”

— Sean Meshorer

“Amish recognize each others' horse like we do our friends' car.”

— Brenda Nixon, M.A

Building community is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual.

— Grace Lee Boggs

Absolutist morality doesn't have to come from religion but usually does.

— Richard Dawkins

Religion and love don't have a price, don't have a gender, a skin color, nothing. We are all on the same plate.

— Riccardo Tisci

“Though a man be wise and intelligent, he is a fool in the eyes of the ignorant.”

— Saadi

It seems we are suffering from a very narrow and self serving reading of the Gospel right now.

— Richard Rohr

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

— Rajneesh

There the door is always open into the “holy” — growth, birth, death.

— May Sarton

“YOU CLAWED YOUR WAY BACK FROM THE ABYSS. YOU SOUGHT TO REFORGE YOUR SPIRIT ON THE ANVIL OF YOUR WILL.”

— Phil Tucker