Religion Quotes · Page 277

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

— Thomas F. Wilson

“I watch the growth of spirit in the children who come to my class.”

— William Saroyan

“Each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand mediocre minds appointed to guard the past.”

— Maurice Maeterlinck

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

— Joan of Arc

Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

— Boyd K. Packer

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

— Frank Zappa

The spiritual quest begins, for most people, as a search for meaning.

— Marilyn Ferguson

Faith never knows where it is led , but it loves and knows the one who is leading it .

— Anonymous

Fortunately, Judge Richey's decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, but it is an example of how far the purge of…

— Bruce L. Shelley

“You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at…

— Hermann Hesse

I have grown to understand that no matter where we come from, human beings, at heart, are the same. Defining ourselves based…

— Shenaz Treasury

Even if we could be certain that one of the world's religions were perfectly true, given the sheer number of conflicting faiths…

— Bertrand Russell

You cannot catch a child's spirit by running after it; you must stand still and for love it will soon itself return.

— Arthur Miller

There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Men will trust in God no further than they know Him; and they cannot be in the exercise of faith in Him…

— Jonathan Edwards

There's no anger ever in a spiritual. There's always the dream of a hope of a better day coming. That God understands…

— Jessye Norman

A man is saved no faster than he gets knowledge. For if he does not get knowledge, he will be brought into…

— Joseph Smith, Jr

“He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was.…

— Teju Cole

“There are indeed millions of Christians in the United States, but most Americans who think that they are Christians truly are something…

— Harold Bloom

I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As…

— Albert Einstein

“Antahkaran (inner complex of mind, intellect, chit and ego) is not made up of four separate parts, it is one. But it…

— Dada Bhagwan

When life tends to get too complex, too fast, too cluttered, too deadline oriented, or too type A for you, stop and…

— Wayne Dyer

Each of you knows that the foundation of our faith is charity. Without it, our religion would crumble. We will never be…

— Pier Giorgio Frassati

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual,…

— Frans de Waal

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“in spiritual warfare. God’s power lies in His three warheads: the Word, the Name, and the Blood.”

— Terry Law

The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence.

— Sam Harris

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

— Oliver Goldsmith

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

— Hugh Blair

“Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question.”

— Anonymous

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

— John Wesley

“The Bible isn’t meant to be read reactively. It is meant to be prayed proactively.”

— Mark Batterson

Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.

— John Lennon

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity.

— Ann Coulter

“Spiritual romance is based on mutual respect and kindness.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

You don't have to believe, support, or agree with a religion we just ask that you respect it.

— Mario Tomasello

“The giant stop in the walk of faith is the one we take when we decide God no longer is a part…

— Beth Moore

The ego constantly competes with the spirit for control over your inner voice.

— Anonymous

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

— C. S. Lewis