Religion Quotes · Page 331

If light is the spiritual quality of painting, color is surely its heart and passion.

— Robert Reynolds

Faith without works is dead, you can't just sit around praying you got to do something too.

— Madea

“Your true self is a boundless spiritual being. You are spirit in body.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

The nightmare spirit of control has always been, and is, profoundly stupid.

— Bryant H. McGill

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.

— John Irving

In my home, life was framed as an epic spiritual battle between good and evil.

— Megan Phelps-Roper

My family was very Halloween-friendly, for all of the religion and whatever was going on.

— Bill Moseley

It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

— Anselm of Canterbury

The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in…

— Anonymous

Living through the intersections of cultural diversity has given me an intimate understanding of the dynamics of living between the dimensions of…

— Deeyah Khan

It's true that most people find it far more comfortable to trust an authority than to have their faith questioned.

— Daniel Ellsberg

“This is freedom. This is the force of faith. Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing…

— Jorie Graham

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains,…

— George Eliot

Government employees are public servants and prohibited by the Constitution from inhibiting religious freedom, that is a far cry from sneaking around…

— Mathew Staver

You will notice that in all disputes between Christians since the birth of the Church, Rome has always favored the doctrine which…

— Voltaire

My whole childhood was about being in the garden. It wasn't really a religious place to me. The love I felt there...…

— Rula Jebreal

“Religion was supposed to be a matter of faith. Gods were not supposed to jump on your desk and snarl at you.…

— Christopher Moore

“Resilience is a person’s capacity to “bounce back” after a difficult or traumatic experience.It’s more than just a person’s ability to adapt…

— Daniel D. Maurer

In my eyes, concepts of theology have only as much value as they are able to interpret experience. It seems to me…

— Eugen Drewermann

Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very…

— Quentin Crisp

“Environment is a sculptor—a painter. If we had been born in Constantinople, the most of us would have said: "There is no…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of…

— Bertrand Russell

Sadly, many individuals don't know where to find God, and exclude him from their lives. When spiritual needs arise, they may look…

— Russell M. Nelson

“That trip to India, the poverty. No God I can imagine would let that happen. Then I came home and started noticing…

— E. Lockhart

“No matter how separated we are by what we think and believe, we are part of the same spiritual story.”

— Brené Brown

The religions never wanted an art where you paint only what you see.

— Milton Resnick

It may seem bizarre, but in my opinion science offers a surer path to God than religion.

— Paul Davies

“If we would spend as much time with the world as we spend going to church, the church would grow.”

— Alin Sav

It doesn't seem Shakespeare works if you turn him into a religion.

— Roger Rees

I look at Jerusalem as being a beacon for the three monotheistic religions.

— Anonymous

When it comes to matters of religion and state, Bayit Yehudi is more extreme than the ultra-Orthodox.

— Tzipi Livni

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I’m a very spiritual person and proud of my Mormon roots,

— Jon Huntsman, Jr

All spiritual life begins with a sense of wonder, and nature is a window into that wonder.

— Richard Louv

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions.

— Edwin Louis Cole

Today, some of the most spiritual people I know claim to be without religion.

— Tony Campolo

I make cinema - I'm a very religious person. Making images is a form of faith.

— Alice Rohrwacher

We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.

— D. A. Carson

“The sin life in us must be transformed into the spiritual life.” “How?” “Through sacrifice and obedience.”

— Jan Karon

There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

— Lewis Tappan