Religion Quotes · Page 391

You know how they say that religion is the opiate of the masses? Well I took masses of opiates religiously.

— Carrie Fisher

Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.

— Johan Huizinga

Religion is the most widely debated and least agreed upon phenomenon of human history.

— Georgia Harkness

I think the thing that I find the most difficult to talk about is religion.

— John Grant

“Future existence is not a purely spiritual existence, it demands a life in a body and in a material universe.”

— Graham Scroggie

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

— Martin Luther

Religion worships God, while superstition profanes that worship.

— Seneca the Younger

“… a person who tries to use reasoning to explain faith gets lost in the wilderness of incomprehension.”

— Janvier Chando

No man who has lived through a temporary spiritual experience is ever likely to forget it. His days will be haunted until…

— Paul Brunton

“Every time a young girl gets raped, it's proof that there is no God. What kind of a God would just twiddle…

— Oliver Markus Malloy

Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we have learned here. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear…

— Lady Denise Evette

The criticism usually goes only to the religious right. 'Bigots,' 'intolerant,' 'hateful' - those labels get slapped on quickly and usually when…

— Kay Coles James

“Your most valuable treasures are the ones which cannot be bought or stolen because they live within your spirit.”

— Donavan Nelson Butler, Master Sergeant US Army

Martin Luther King Jr. was a Southern, conservative minister who believed in the American promise. His dream was patriotic and traditional. Family,…

— Jason Whitlock

“When you find yourself in need of spiritual nourishment, it is in the opportunities to serve others that you will find the…

— Steve Maraboli

If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we…

— Hassan Nasrallah

It's a spiritual malnutrition tied to a moral constipation, where people have a sense of what's right and what's good. It's just…

— Cornel West

The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

Theology, I am persuaded, derives its initial impulse from a religious wavering; for there is quite as much, or more, that is…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

“My death conceals an appalling conspiracy against our religion, our traditions and the way we see the world. Open your eyes, discover…

— Orhan Pamuk

The function of the church for both young and old is not to give us on Sundays certain kinds of experiences different…

— Sophia Lyon Fahs

We're talking a lot about reason and religion today, but I really hope that the American experiment can continue, because liberty really…

— James Wasserman

Faith-not a faith in one's self or in one's own powers but faith in principle; in the Something Great which upholds right,…

— Wallace D. Wattles

“Why do religious believers hate unbelievers? The feel threatened by them, they feel besieged by them. Religions consider themselves as separate tribes…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

The less Holy Spirit we have, the more cake and coffee we need to keep the church going.

— Reinhard Bonnke

If the 'I am the doer' idea goes, then only I Am remains and that 'I Am' has no religion.

— Mooji

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

— John Rawls

The church is never a place to show off. Do your good deeds quietly. Serve; don't seek to be seen

— Max Lucado

A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.

— Richard Sibbes

“Salvation, then, is not “going to heaven” but “being raised to life in God’s new heaven and new earth.”

— N. T. Wright

The good teachings thoughts are not obedient to any religious boundaries . These things are justgood and true.

— Mak_786

To speak the gospel skillfully without attempting to perform the gospel is a false proclamation of the gospel.

— William Henry Willimon

The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him.

— Oswald Chambers

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

— Peabo Bryson

Mission is not primarily an activity of the church, but an attribute of God.

— David Bosch

I considered atheism, but there weren't enough holidays.

— Anonymous

Psychics put people in spiritual harm, the same way pimps put people in physical harm.

— Christine O'Donnell

There are three indispensable requirements for a missionary: 1. Patience 2. Patience 3. Patience.

— Hudson Taylor

“Countering religious intolerance with secular intolerance only replaces one monster with another.”

— Amish Tripathi

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge