Religion Quotes · Page 319

The founder brought the laws from the lawgiver; the faithful are meant to announce the laws to the lawgiver.

— Franz Kafka

“Using science to prove religion is like using a ruler to measure love.”

— Rick Julian

Idolatry is when you become the source of your own joy. Poverty of spirit is a wonderful thing.

— Paul Washer

Religions are many and diverse, but reason and goodness are one.

— Elbert Hubbard

“the one thing to which the human spirit could always accommodate itself was chaos and misfortune.”

— Paul Scott

My faith in God is healing my heart so I can have peace.

— Phan Thi Kim Phuc

You've got to play with passion and spirit and I will always roll up my sleeves and give it a good go.

— Lee Cattermole

The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

— Brendan Myers

Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the…

— Erich Fromm

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

— Shana Abe

Make yourself familiar with the angels and behold them frequently in spirit; for without being seen, they are present with you.

— Anonymous

Some of my students have had really bad experiences with religion. They moved away from talking to God. For a lot of…

— Doreen Virtue

What is it in you that brings you to a spiritual teacher in the first place? It's not the spirit in you,…

— Ken Wilber

Your salvation depends on what [Christ] has done for you, not on what you do for Him. It isn't your hold on…

— Billy Graham

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and…

— Rufus Wainwright

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

— James Madison

To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the…

— Swami Vivekananda

You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act…

— Jack Schwarz

“The studio was immense and gloomy, the sole light within it proceeding from a stove, around which the three were seated. Although…

— James Hain Friswell

We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It’s…

— Pope Francis

“Now from science we have a new creation story, which is very alluring and very exciting. It's not about deposing all the…

— David Felten

Unbelief is criminal because it is a moral act, an act of the whole nature.-Belief or unbelief is a test of a…

— Alexander MacLaren

“Whenever I felt like that, I would have a chat with my own Fat Mary. She was like the sweet fresh air…

— Maria Nhambu

“Their conversations turned to religion, and Pigafetta persuaded the prisoner to convert to Christianity. He was baptized, and the giant, whose original…

— Laurence Bergreen

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

— John Ortberg

The intellectual controls the spiritual, the animal respects the natural.

— Ray Davies

I strive to express the spiritual nature of the universe.

— Richard Pousette-Dart

“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.”

— Alfred North Whitehead

Jesus didn't die so we could fill auditoriums, he died so that lives could be transformed.

— George Barna

Give me the child until he is seven and I'll give you the man

— Francis Xavier

Making a record and being a touring artist is about cooperation between spirit, craft, emotion, and focus.

— Lizz Wright

Purity lives and derives its life solely from the Spirit of God.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“laughter and a sense of humor as a universal index of spiritual development.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

— Lydia Sigourney

“down with hell and heaven and all the religious fuss infinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us”

— E. E. Cummings

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

— Max Muller

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

— Yann Martel

“the right marriage of words were the bible's biggest asset.”

— Anonymous

I have a problem with religion that makes it so, like, 'We are the ones. We are the chosen ones.'

— Cher