Religion Quotes · Page 386

A biblical understanding of the Christian life is not 'let go and let God,' it's 'trust God and get going.'

— Tullian Tchividjian

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

— Aldous Huxley

“The spiritual path is more of an unlearning than a learning.”

— Donna Goddard

That's what we have with the Old Testament and the New Testament: good storytelling.

— Naveen Andrews

For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

— Alexander Pope

Watch with wisdom the shadow you see is better than the spirit you known!

— D Brown

Our Christian identity is belonging to a people: the Church. Without the Church we are not Christians.

— Pope Francis

“When you leave reasoning & start believing than nothing is reasonable & everything is believable.”

— Imran Bughio

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe,…

— Michelangelo

Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could…

— Dalai Lama

“The biblical writings have an inherent authority as works uniquely inspired by God. Canonization is the process of recognizing that inherent authority,…

— Robert L. Plummer

Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky…

— Michael Scott

Anything you can do that connects believers with one another engages the church to go the next level, which keeps the pastor…

— Tony Evans

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it…

— Dennis Quaid

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a…

— St. Jerome

“But the country is changing.” “It’s going to the dogs, I think; — about as fast as it can go.” “We build…

— Anthony Trollope

“Having grown separately for millennia, the Americas were a boundless sea of novel ideas, dreams, stories, philosophies, religions, moralities, discoveries, and all…

— Charles C. Mann

“Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an…

— Francis Bacon

“ 'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. "Well,…

— Tom Robbins

“The fact that it was the “Christian church” which chose to do the evils you write about, and to do them using…

— Gregory A. Boyd

I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions-those who wantonly damage it and those who do not.…

— Alice Walker

As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to…

— David Hume

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have remover their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds…

— Thomas Jefferson

In matters of religion, I have considered that its free exercise is placed by the Constitution independent of the powers of the…

— Thomas Jefferson

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

— Anonymous

Formal religion was organized for slaves: it offered them consolation which earth did not provide.

— Elbert Hubbard

Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A wasted human being--that's a sort of practical blasphemy, according to my religion.

— Samuel Hopkins Adams

Spiritual formation in Christ moves us toward a total interchange of our ideas and images for his.

— Dallas Willard

When a man is made a spiritual peer he loses his surname; when a temporal, his Christian name.

— Jonathan Swift

The most challenging thing for the spiritual seeker to do is to stop struggling.

— Adyashanti

“Studerer man lenge nok de bibelske lignelser, lukkes sjelen gradvis inne i vanviddets labyrint.”

— Gert Nygårdshaug

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

— Adoniram Judson

The stars in the sky are really other suns like our own, around which orbit other planets. (paraphrase)

— Giordano Bruno

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

— David Wilkerson

There can be no faith without doubt. No strength without temptation. (Rafael)

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“They believe in the religion of privilege, the creed of greed and the dogma of perks – for themselves,”

— Bernard Minier

I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.

— Lauryn Hill

Sometimes my life just don't make sense at all. The mountains looks so big and my faith just seems so small.

— Rich Mullins

All the answers to lifes problems are in the Bible. Read it! -

— Lisa