Religion Quotes · Page 316

It's very difficult to be right about something without hurting someone with it.

— Dallas Willard

Politicians in Canada should not put their religion on their sleeve.

— Elizabeth May

I'm such a spiritual man. I think that displayed in the music throughout the course of my career.

— Joe Budden

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

— Alexander Pope

“We are all born like Catholics . . . in limbo, without religion.”

— Yann Martel

The Religious Right dislikes both abortions and homosexuality. But who has fewer abortions than gays?

— George Carlin

A global awakening can only happen from a spiritual awakening that is of global dimensions.

— Matthew Fox

I believe that organized religion is an ornament to the truth, and that aesthetics are part of its power.

— Andrew Solomon

“The world in which we now live is a world whose outlook is so distorted that we absolutize what is relative (money-making,…

— Alice von Hildebrand

“If we really exist merely to fulfill God’s plan: then life is a television drama; with God being the scriptwriter, the director,…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Religion hinges upon faith, politics hinges upon who can tell the most convincing lies or maybe just shout the loudest, but science…

— Ian Stewart

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing…

— Sam Harris

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Its like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

— John Trudell

Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature…

— Ruta Sepetys

“Being in the Word is Far More Important than Being in a Ministry...If You Are in a Ministry Without Being in the…

— Agu Jaachynma N.E

“It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes. All that is…

— Naomi janowitz

All religions have been created to explain things we know nothing about. For the Greeks, natural phenomena such as lightning could not…

— Ryan A Camp

It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator…

— John Adams

I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something…

— Stephen Fry

“Risk assessment is the new religion, the Big Babies'equivalent of the apotropaic ritual, the haruspices, the chicken entrails and the goat on…

— Michael Bywater

While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is…

— Quentin Crisp

Generosity of spirit is worthwhile. I've had many requests over the years to attend things, to sing somewhere. I try not to…

— Judith Durham

“Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man.…

— John Steinbeck

The supreme harmony of the cosmos is selected in the harmony of the spirit.

— Franz Liszt

“The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.”

— John Martel

One of the things that kills Buddhist spiritual life is excessive seriousness.

— Gil Fronsdal

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home

— James A. Michener

“Allow your heart to have faith no matter what. It's what will give you strength in troubled times.”

— Morgan Rhodes

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

— Anonymous

“Tis strange that it should be among such men that we find proofs of friendship and devotion.”

— Alexandre Dumas

Increase your faith. Proclaim your faith. Let your faith show.

— Russell M. Nelson

The gospel is not only the way to enter the kingdom; it is the way to live in the kingdom.

— Timothy Keller

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

— Edmond de Goncourt

I'm a big believer in the Christian faith. I don't push it on anyone, though.

— Steve Trotter

It's usually a spiritual thing that's preventing somebody from having happiness.

— Sandra Bernhard

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

— Immanuel Kant

I've become much more spiritual and use a lot of energy to try and keep the balance.

— Jeppe Hein

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

— Bob Hawke

Religion is a bridge to the spiritual, but the spiritual lies beyond religion.

— Rachel Naomi Remen