Religion Quotes · Page 403

You measure a church's strength, not by its seating capacity but by its sending capacity.

— Rick Warren

But how to get faith strengthened? Not by striving after faith, but by resting on the Faithful One.

— Hudson Taylor

The Christian life is what you do when you realize that you can do nothing.

— Mike Erre

The time has come for a new kind of conversation, a new kind of Christianity, a new kind of revolution.

— Shane Claiborne

The churches have no confidence in each other. Why? Because they are acquainted with each other.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The more I read about religion the more against religion I am. Sorry not sorry.

— Anonymous

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

— Margaret Deland

“The problem is that most people, most of the time, are desperate to believe ridiculous and divisive ideas for patently emotional reasons,and…

— Sam Harris

Theres some inherently unique characteristics of Christianity, the chief of which is that Christianity teaches that we are saved by what Christ…

— Max Lucado

[T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less…

— Glenn Reynolds

We were supposed to be able to use the Bible's words to explain what we were doing, and if we couldn't do…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

I've been woken up by things like the MeToo movement. I didn't realize how much of the patriarchy was ingrained within my…

— Wunmi Mosaku

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates…

— Voltaire

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

— Thomas Jefferson

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does…

— Roger Scruton

[ Jonathan] Edwards is the person who really made theological determinism a serious option for Reformed thinkers, and the influence his views…

— Oliver D. Crisp

“In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found…

— Bruce Feiler

“But [religious faith]'s not extinct, Janet. It's become nearly universal in the fleet and is growing very quickly in the Alliance." "Yes,…

— Dani Kollin

“Religions and states and classes and tribes and nations do not have to work or argue for their adherents and subjects. They…

— Christopher Hitchens

While science has nothing of value to say on the great and aching questions of life, death, love and meaning, what the…

— David Berlinski

Christ alone, of all the philosophers, magicians, etc., has affirmed eternal life as the most important certainty, the infinity of time, the…

— Vincent Van Gogh

“Where there is (consideration for) merit karma and demerit karma; true religion is indeed not present there. There is no merit or…

— Dada Bhagwan

“Perhaps it is only the light. Perhaps it is the power of the realms at work through me. Or perhaps it is…

— Libba Bray

The only religion that still demands human sacrifice is nationalism.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

— Frank Butler

There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'

— Ralph H. Baer

Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

— Leo Tolstoy

No religion knows the truth. Only he or she who lives it knows.

— Barry Long

Young people get lured into love and affection but should not be forced to change religion.

— Anurag Thakur

All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

— Theodore Dreiser

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

— Arthur Middleton

“Those who claim to be closest to God are furthest from Heaven.”

— Navonne Johns

Religion put claws on Aunt Sally and gave her a post to whet them on.

— Katherine Anne Porter

“A sermonic idea is a homiletical bind; a sermon is a narrative plot!”

— Eugene L. Lowry

In Turkey the religious minorities have more rights than they do in Europe.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

“We are all infinite spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, and”

— Wayne W. Dyer

The mature religious sentiment is ordinarily fashioned in the workshop of doubt.

— Gordon Allport

Trying to make the Gospel relevant is like trying to make water wet.

— Matt Chandler

“Religion can only do two things for mankind; turn them into monster or stupid.”

— M.F. Moonzajer