Religion Quotes · Page 279

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy.

— George Washington

“What is the point in dreaming if you aren’t willing to put your faith into it?”

— Miranda Atchley

“And the voice of God was in the whirlwind after all, said Thor”

— Orson Scott Card

I regard myself as one of the most dangerous enemies of religion

— Sigmund Freud

I knew all about religion all my life; it just never was real to me.

— B. J. Thomas

Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

— Helena Rubinstein

“religious house called Campsie, the ruins of which still occupy a striking situation on the Tay. It”

— Walter Scott

The fact that the Catholic Church has come to an agreement with Fascist Italy ... proves beyond doubt that the Fascist world…

— Adolf Hitler

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the…

— Pope John Paul II

Spirituality is not about being fixed; it is about God's being present in the mess of our unfixedness. (Messy Spirituality)

— Anonymous

There is no Christianity without the cross. If the cross is not central to our religion, ours is not the religion of…

— John Stott

For me, what's the old expression, 'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable,' that's really what religion is good at when it…

— Mike Rowe

Jesus Christ said, 'I pray your faith will not fail.' This means your faith will be tested. What is testing your faith…

— T. B. Joshua

Dave [Holland] plays the way he wants to play. And it's usually what's needed. You know, Dave is such a deep thinker.…

— Miles Davis

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

— Owen Feltham

“There is enough mystery in human nature to keep the world stuck in a perpetual state of righteous speculation. Only the wise…

— Shannon L. Alder

The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was…

— Brennan Manning

Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders…

— François-René de Chateaubriand

“When people no longer love God with their whole heart, religious observances with the greatest of potential become only hollow rituals, and…

— Catherine Stonehouse

“He was learning that to win a fight like this, it was not enough to know what one was fighting against. That…

— Salman Rushdie

“Jesus Fulfills the Eternal Covenant Scripture represents the Lord Jesus Christ, in all that He did and suffered for His people, as…

— David N. Steele

“Forget everything you ordinarily associate with religious study. Strip away all the reverence and the awe and the art and the philosophy…

— Lev Grossman

I have always marveled that so many religions exact such revenge against dissenters. It only weakens the appeal of their faith and…

— Ravi Zacharias

I don't have a religion because I don't like that word religion.

— Madonna Ciccone

Spiritual experiences are like mist, they will evaporate.

— Jigdral Yeshe Dorje

God made so many different kinds of people. Why would he allow only one way to serve him?

— Martin Buber

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

— Heber J. Grant

“Religion causes wars,’ ‘guns kill people,’ it’s all the same old bullshit!”

— Fredrik Backman

If we are not one, we are not in the true sense of the word the disciples of the Lord Jesus.

— Brigham Young

“for a man of religion he was one of the most untrustworthy men I had ever met. He would fit right in”

— David Clark

I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.

— Jackie Jackson

“Confession is good for the soul, it empties the spirit making more room for sin.”

— Trevanian

To practice Aikido fully you must calm the spirit and go back to the origin.

— Morihei Ueshiba

The opinion formulated by the Church has more value in my eyes than human reasons, whatever they may be.

— Desiderius Erasmus

Jas 1:3: ...because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

— Bible

People seeking to live spiritually must be concerned with their social and physical environment.

— Sulak Sivaraksa

Civilizations come and go; they conquer the earth and crumble into dust; but faith survives every desolation.

— Will Durant

Faith is more important to me than life itself because without it there would be no fullness of life.

— Mother Teresa

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

— Frank Zappa