Religion Quotes · Page 317

Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.

— C. S. Lewis

Religion may in most of its forms be defined as the belief that the gods are on the side of the government.

— Bertrand Russell

I've been immersed in it too long. My spirit is wobbly and my mind is confused. The hurt has become too great.

— Ernie Pyle

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.

— Subhash Kak

“Without my voice and spirit I am dust. This is not what I want, but what I must.”

— Mike Bartlett

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

— Adam Ferrara

I understood rage from my dad, who was an exquisite blend of rage and generosity of spirit.

— Peter Scolari

Anytime you want to get into religious or political views, that can instantly polarize people.

— Harrison Barnes

Parents now are concerned about the moral and spiritual diseases. These can have terrible complications when standards and values are abandoned. We…

— Boyd K. Packer

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women…

— Pope Francis

“Life is a gift, and should be cherished, lived and experienced. Though experience often reveals itself as pain in this world, it…

— Michael Poeltl

Any spirit that permits compromise with the world is a false spirit. Any religious movement that imitates the world in any of…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Conversion by the Holy Spirit is a spiritual illumination of the soul. God's grace lights up the dark heart. And when a…

— Theodore L. Cuyler

I am suspicious - first of all, in myself - of adopted mysticisms of glib spirituality, above all of white people's tendency…

— Adrienne Rich

Heap coals of fire on the head of your enemy Mthis most uncharitable advice is found in a book [the Bible], of…

— Horace Walpole

My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a…

— Thomas A. Edison

It is worth noting that the people today who so vehemently wish to sweep religion from all public spaces and institutions are…

— Charley Reese

On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding…

— Philip Yancey

“A terrible crisis unquestionably has arisen in the Church. In the ministry of evangelical churches are to be found hosts of those…

— J. Gresham Machen

What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that…

— David F. Wells

We communicate happiness to others not often by great acts of devotion and self-sacrifice, but by the absence of fault-finding and censure,…

— Adam Clarke

We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation…

— Robert Winston

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a…

— Judy Collins

We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive…

— A. Theodore Tuttle

I realized that I needed to be more like the shepherd than the hired hand in protecting my team.

— Tony Dungy

“A spiritual hell I lived in … hating the God of love and knowing the god I served … hated me!”

— David W Earle

When ideas become gods, consciousness of harmony becomes devotion, humility, and hope.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

In particular, the emerging call from our nation's evangelicals to protect God's creation is substantial

— Jim Clyburn

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

— Frans de Waal

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

— Julianna Baggott

Amazing is the one who keeps his faith in God during times of defeat.

— Punkinhead Abhishek

“For every need and issue and decision that must be made in life, the Bible has the answers.”

— Elizabeth George

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Religion can never reform mankind because religion is slavery.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The Church is simply the path of history, and not the actual kingdom of God.

— Nikolai Berdyaev

Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Christians and non-Christians have something in common. Were both uptight about evangelism.

— Rebecca Pippert

“Jesus didn't just wear a cross around his neck, he carried it on his back.”

— Anonymous

“Amendment to live by- J.O.Y. Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last.”

— Michelle Duggar