Religion Quotes · Page 333

Religion is more like a response to a friend than it is like obedience to an expert.

— Austin Farrer

Everybody takes what they life from the teachings of the church, and ignores the parts that don't suit them.

— Ken Follett

When you feel nothing, God is teaching you to live by faith.

— Rick Warren

Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

I think religion is best when it's reduced to a one hour television program.

— Rob Campbell

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

— Herman Melville

And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

— William Shakespeare

There is only one Church, and the responsibility for missionary work is universal. 'Every member a missionary.'

— James E. Faust

One cannot set out to make a work that's spiritual. What is a contemporary iconography for the spiritual? Is it some fuzzy…

— Anish Kapoor

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus…

— George Whitefield

As you smell the fragrance of a flower by handing it or the smell of sandalwood by rubbing it against a stone,…

— Sarada Devi

The pagan religion, which prohibited only some of the grosser crimes, and which stopped the hand but meddled not with the heart,…

— Baron de Montesquieu

America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and…

— Lee Hsien Loong

“As a boy, reading was my religion. It helped me to discover my soul. Later, writing helped me to record its journey.”

— Ruskin Bond

Everyone within the sound of my voice has the power to increase a child’s confidence in himself or herself and to increase…

— Rosemary M. Wixom

Everyone who believes in God must have His revelation in his spirit, or else what he believes is not God but mere…

— Watchman Nee

“He and his fellow pastors attacked the public schools for teaching “immorality” and “secular humanism.” But what bothered pious members of his…

— Frances FitzGerald

Faith in God is; I believe therefore I see. Not the other way around. Seeing before believing. For we walk by faith…

— Geraldine Vermaak

“Some people like to argue about God.” “Not necessary,” he said. “I have good idea, for if you meet some person from…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Christianity is a religion in a rush. Look at the world created in seven days. Even on a symbolic level, that's creation…

— Yann Martel

I have learned to prize holy ignorance more highly than religious certainty and to seek companions who have arrived at the same…

— Barbara Brown Taylor

“Holding an expectation of God actually honors Him. A heart of faith-filled expectation says, ‘I know You are good. I know You…

— Kristen M. Smeltzer

This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the…

— Sonia Gandhi

“Grace to you and peace from  i him  j who is and  k who was and who is to come, and from  l the seven spirits…

— Anonymous

“As the old wanderer often mumbled, The gates of Eden are always open, but few bother to look.”

— Anonymous

Everybody is following somebody. Everybody has faith in something and somebody. We are all believers.

— Rob Bell

If you cast away one cross, you will certainly find another, and perhaps a heavier.

— Thomas a Kempis

I have holiday spirit in that it comes in a bottle and leaves me with a glowing red nose.

— Anonymous

“The difference between christians and non christians is not their sins, but their sens.”

— Alin Sav

“Belief, he says. Belief shifts. People start out believing in the god and end up believing in the structure.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.’” Matthew”

— Richard L. Mabry

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward faith.

— Viktor E. Frankl

“You are a God of winds and tides. Of journeys and storms and navigation by stars and faith.”

— Lisa Wingate

“Deeds are divine, not doctrines. Actions are religious, not creeds.”

— Abhijit Naskar

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Polarisation on religious lines for political gains shall not be on the BJP's agenda.

— Amit Shah

I find a great deal of comfort and care in my faith and prayer. I'd sooner do without air than prayer.

— Mary Karr

“Even if dogma has a purpose, it can never function as a substitute for faith, only as a dry aspect of it.”

— Nathan Lopes Cardozo

“That's what faith is, isn't it? Following the music when we don't hear it.”

— Francisco X. Stork

“When the spiritual light is concentrated in the brain, everything else must be sinking in the dark.”

— Carl Linnaeus