Religion Quotes · Page 295

“Can no prayers pierce thee? SHYLOCK: No, none that thou hast wit enough to make.”

— William Shakespeare

Who doesn't love the parables? You know there's a solution, but you have to do some work to find it.

— John Bytheway

“The fastest and quickest way to change is to take mental flight. Raise your spirit. Soar high.”

— Sri Vishwanath

Yet church youth groups rarely teach apologetics, majoring instead on games and goodies.

— Nancy Pearcey

That was really the Fifties for me - that whole spirit of flicking the paint on the canvas.

— Peter Marino

There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

— Woodrow Wilson

Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Religion and science have always been matters of faith in something. It is the same something.

— Gene Wolfe

The religious doctrine of traditional Judaism entails the acceptance of the nationhood of the Jewish people and the everlasting sanctity of the…

— David Novak

In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

— Sigmund Freud

“Thought is power, as is desire, but neither is enough unless it is backed by faith, specificity, and the desire to see…

— Stephen Richards

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame,…

— John Flavel

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

— Joseph Addison

History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest…

— Thomas Carlyle

I will always try to share my faith with any person who is willing to listen. When I feel a wall go…

— Gloria Gaynor

We [americans] are not a freedom-loving people in the beautiful, spiritual sense. We have an inspiring Constitution, but we're a hardhearted people.

— George Carlin

Idiosyncratic belief systems which are shared by only a few adherents are likely to be regarded as delusional. Belief systems which may…

— Anthony Storr

“The truth of the gospel is timeless, and there are still sermons to be preached, sinners to be reached, churches to be…

— Mark Driscoll

“A person with a biblical worldview experiences, interprets, and response to reality in light of the Bible's principles. What Scripture teaches is…

— David Kinnaman

“I believe a significant segment of American evangelicalism is guilty of nationalistic and political idolatry. To a frightful degree, I think, evangelicals…

— Gregory A. Boyd

“The imagination places the world of the future either far above us, or far below, or in a relation of metempsychosis to…

— Novalis

In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we…

— Martin Luther

“Therefore, the pure righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase…

— Anonymous

If true religion is to beam upon us, our principle must be, that it is necessary to begin with heavenly teaching, and…

— John Calvin

It is secular spiritual music, the gospel blues. It's music from the heart instead of the head.

— Charlie Musselwhite

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

— John Calvin

“Si me convierto será porque es preferible que muera un creyente a que lo haga un ateo.”

— Christopher Hitchens

I do not belong to any religion. Everything is between God and myself.

— Indra Devi

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

— Sojourner Truth

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

— Frederick Lenz

How absurd to try to make two men think alike on matters of religion, when I cannot make two timepieces agree.

— Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor

Dignity is more important to the human spirit than wealth.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

When emotional intelligence merges with spiritual intelligence, human nature is transformed.

— Deepak Chopra

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile.

— Adelaide Hasse

The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I respect all religions.. and don't believe in any religion. i believe in Humanity !!

— Aditya Shah

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

— Albert Einstein

The great man, that is, the man most imbued with the spirit of the time, is the impressionable man.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

That a religion may be true, it must have knowledge of our nature.

— Blaise Pascal

“Wisdom moves hills, faith moves mountains, love moves the world, and together they move the universe.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo