Religion Quotes · Page 339

If the Bible is God's word, and we believe it, let us handle it with reverence.

— John Bartholomew Gough

“Nothing has taken more money or killed more people in the history of your race than religion,”

— Jack L. Chalker

For me, creativity is essentially a spiritual experience, a conversation between my soul and me.

— Sue Monk Kidd

Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.

— George Barrell Cheever

Faith is oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking

— Anonymous

True faith does not so much attempt to manipulate God to do our will as it does to position us to do…

— Philip Yancey

If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.

— Paul Ricoeur

“I always carry the book of Holy Writ...and something to read...”

— Elizabeth Peters

Devotion is not about a God. Devotion is about you making your emotions so sweet that your life experience becomes beautiful.

— Jaggi Vasudev

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

— Narendra Modi

The ancient Greeks did not have to wrestle with the philosophical problem of the existence of evil. They did not claim their…

— Margaret Visser

Let's make two things clear: Isil is not "Islamic." No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's…

— Barack Obama

I had read some books on the Baha'i Faith. I had read - I was looking into Buddhism and trying to understand…

— Mahershala Ali

“When you are praying alone, and your spirit is dejected … remember then that God the Trinity looks upon you with eyes…

— Paraclete Press Editors

The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one…

— Martin Luther

The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches…

— Baron de Montesquieu

The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bonhoeffer’s three conclusions—that the church must question the state, help the state’s victims, and work against the state, if necessary—were too much…

— Eric Metaxas

The prevailing notion is that the state should be neutral as to religion, and furthermore, that the best way to be neutral…

— Joseph Sobran

“The fundamentalist impulse can creep up on a devotee in many ways. Devotion is the quickest path to the divine, but it…

— Sadhguru

“Life batters and shapes us in all sorts of ways before it's done, but those original selves which we were born with,…

— Frederick Buechner

“Looking back to [Christendom's] youth, we recall the emotional stirrings, the deep sense of Christian purpose, when a temple, say, challenged the…

— Harry Blamires

“This is an organic religion. A religion of the people from heart to heart; a faith that finds the presence of the…

— Arin Murphy-Hiscock

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

— Tullian Tchividjian

Spiritual lust causes me to demand an answer from God, instead of seeking God Himself who gives the answer.

— Oswald Chambers

The idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I am unable to take seriously.

— Albert Einstein

Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

— Lawrence M. Miller

It's attractive when girls have faith. That is a big thing for me.

— Tim Tebow

Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.

— Gary Hamel

For me, spiritual practice is a lot closer to art than science.

— Liz Williams

“Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

— Amish Tripathi

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

— Frank Herbert

I'm not a religious person, but I read the Bible many years ago.

— Cody Fern

The highest human purpose is always to reinvent and celebrate the sacred.

— N. Scott Momaday

The system of morality to be gathered from the ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

— Jonathan Swift

“Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.”

— Raphael Zernoff

Finding the balance between body, mind and spirit is a great achievement.

— Rickson Gracie