Religion Quotes · Page 320

Spirituality is not about looking up or down - it's about looking inward.

— Jaggi Vasudev

“all heathen books are poisoned through and through with this striving after praise and honor.”

— Martin Luther

We must break the evil habit of ignoring the spiritual. We must shift our interest from the seen to the unseen.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I am sensitive to the value of faith and religion and spirituality in people's lives because I'm a journalist.

— Peter Jennings

Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The ministry and mission of the church is at the center of Christian giving.

— John Piper

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

— Vita Sackville-West

“The greatest life is to love thy God with all your heart in obedient faith.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should…

— Jacques Tati

“I just wish this social institution [religion] wasn't based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their…

— Bobby McFerrin

Being a good person doesn't depend on your religion or status in your life, your race or skin color, political views or…

— Anonymous

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you…

— Jami Gertz

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion,…

— William J. Clinton

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays... bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to…

— John Updike

“Preach the way of God in the best manner because the forced establishment of religion will cause people to distance themselves from…

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“It is estimated that every three minutes somewhere in the world a Christian faces serious violations ranging from severe discrimination to outright…

— Majed El Shafie

“Nothing is more hallowing than the union of kindred spirits in art. At the moment of meeting, the art lover transcends himself.…

— Kakuzō Okakura

“God’s world is set up with laws and principles. Spiritual realities are as real as gravity, and if you do not know…

— Henry Cloud

This is why for thousands of years Christians have found the cross to be so central to life. It speaks to us…

— Rob Bell

I don't want to say I drank the Kool-Aid because I'm definitely not religious and I don't buy into any religion at…

— Ladyhawke

I'm not a religious person by any means. But I certainly believe in some kind of a higher power and something looking…

— Christian Slater

“The flesh,' as Saint Paul used the term, refers, ironically, not to our bodies but to fallen human nature. The 'carnal' spirit…

— Thomas Howard

Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in…

— Walter Gropius

Even five minutes spent in silence will nurture and revive your soul and spirit.

— Doreen Virtue

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

— Anonymous

He who is ever ready to live through difficulties with a calm spirit is never wrong, but always strong.

— Terry Mark

“The faith of a religious hypocrite can only be increased through backbiting!”

— Fahad Basheer

To the first class belong the Gospels and Acts; to the second, the Epistles; to the third, the Revelation.

— Philip Schaff

“People hear that you grew up religious, and they can’t imagine you’d have a complex relationship with faith.”

— Victor LaValle

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial. I don't believe there's any middle ground.

— Leonard Ravenhill

“wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.”

— Anonymous

Maintaining spirituality and humanism are the keys to success. It's a balance.

— Bikram Choudhury

I think creativity is spiritual. I absolutely believe that.

— F. Murray Abraham

Wondering if God loves us when we're cheating? Oh, but why he lets us feel things, if it's wrong.

— Dolly Parton

The storms in my life have become workshops where I can practice my faith in God's sovereignty.

— Jill Briscoe

“The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshiped anything but himself.”

— Richard Francis Burton

We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

— Catherine Doherty

I'd say that 'Tree of Life' is not a Christian so much as a spiritual film.

— Brad Pitt

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

— W. Kamau Bell