Religion Quotes · Page 308

I have been the most religious person since I was 2 years old. I always felt this crazy connection to God.

— Heidi Montag

“Grounding is not a descent from spirit, but a way to embody it.”

— Deva Arani

My idea of religion is we are supposed to bring people together. We are not supposed to judge other people.

— Charles Barkley

Overcoming negative tendencies and enhancing positive potential are the very essence of the spiritual path.

— Dalai Lama

The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.

— Anonymous

You must carry on my spirit. It can no longer be carried by a god. It must be taken up by all…

— Rick Riordan

Resurrection means that the worst thing is never the last thing.

— Frederick Buechner

Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death.

— Miguel de Unamuno

Banks have done more injury to the religion, morality, tranquility, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they can have done…

— John Adams

The gospel of Jesus Christ is more enduring than fame, more precious than riches, more to be desired than happiness.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

Once people get hung up on theology, they've lost sanity forever. More people have been killed in the name of Jesus Christ…

— Gore Vidal

“We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretence of understanding. We paper over the voids in our comprehension with…

— Mark Lawrence

Serving the Truth becomes our life instead of just an isolated event. It takes the abstractness out of spirituality. That's the opportunity…

— Adyashanti

It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a…

— Janet Guthrie

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does…

— Henry David Thoreau

“One price of demystifying the universe is that science, unlike religion, asks only how, not why. As to the purpose of things,…

— Charles Krauthammer

As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections,…

— Louise Hay

Our faith is concentrated in the Son of God, and through him in the Father; and the Holy Ghost is their minister…

— Brigham Young

The only sure rule is to remember that the Bible is indeed God's gift to the church, to equip that church for…

— Anonymous

“The morning after the 9/11 attacks...we began talking about the Twin Towers attack. Ruud shook his head sadly about it all. He…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I was raised a Catholic, but with very liberal parents, so I had to find my spirituality. I've been looking for it…

— Sandra Cisneros

Let us face at the outset how many Christians are not victorious, but defeated. Defeated by circumstances, defeated by other peoples? natures…

— Sam Shoemaker

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with…

— Blaise Pascal

True politeness is the spirit of benevolence showing itself in a refined way. It is the expression of good-will and kindness. It…

— Henry Ward Beecher

The Puritan did not stop to think; he recognized God in his soul, and acted.

— Wendell Phillips

“[A] planet, wholly inhabited by spiders, (which is very possible)”

— David Hume

The Christian religion is the best religion that has ever been given to man

— Thomas Jefferson

“It is the theology of the cross over against theologies of glory that drives Calvin’s reforming zeal.”

— Michael S. Horton

The myth of the poor Jesus needs to be destroyed, because it's holding people back.

— T. D. Jakes

The poorest person on earth is the person without faith.

— Myles Munroe

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

— Frank Herbert

"Religious Socialism," "Christian Socialism," are expressions implying a contradiction in terms.

— Pope Pius XI

... the worst possible heritage to leave with children: high spiritual pretensions and low performance.

— Anonymous

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

— Carlos Castaneda

“Misguided loyalty allows the delusions of the leader to grow and destroys the faith of the loyal.”

— Stephen Arterburn

Your faith is measured by how well you love those who can't stand you.

— Mark Hart

The problem is not with the faith, but with the faithful

— Kofi Annan

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

— Timothy Keller

“My spirit is joyful, and I love my higher self. I am my higher self.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

IRS is very poorly equipped to make a distinction between what is a religion and what is not.

— Lawrence Wright