Religion Quotes · Page 422

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

— Carlton Pearson

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

— Samuel Butler

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

— Fernando Botero

Youth take responsibility for your own spiritual well being

— Linda S. Reeves

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

— Sophia Lee

I grew a very strong dislike for the organized aspect of religion over the course of time.

— David Draiman

I have no faith in humanity anymore. People are just becoming more and more ignorant with each passing day.

— Anonymous

Religion without science is superstition. Science without religion is materialism.

— Anonymous

I just wish this social institution [religion] wasnt based on what appears to me to be a monumental hoax built on an…

— Andy Rooney

Anything is depressing if you dwell on it. The fact that religion could end the world? Yeah, I guess that could be…

— Bill Maher

movies have mirrored our moods and myths since the century began. They have taken on some of the work of religion.

— Jennifer Stone

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances…

— A. B. Simpson

What makes a comedian has nothing to do with religion. Think of Red Skelton, Jimmy Durante, Jackie Gleason, who were all Catholics.

— Buddy Hackett

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the…

— Thomas Brooks

“Passion can transform the mind, body and spirit... Passion can align you with the wisdom of nature and the power of what…

— Jo Lynne Valerie

The work of God can only be carried on by the power of God. The church is a spiritual organism fighting spiritual…

— Jim Cymbala

If there is a national, secular religion in the United States, it is the belief that America is the Land of Opportunity,…

— Caterina Fake

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a…

— Brennan Manning

Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is…

— Romain Rolland

Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth…

— Francis Schaeffer

Praised be St John, the glorified of God! Lord, grant me the prayers of St John, disciple and friend whom thou lovest,…

— Eric Milner-White

I share the belief of many of my contemporaries that the spiritual crisis pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be…

— Albert Hofmann

Among the more irritating consequences of our flagrantly religious society is the special dispensation that mainstream religions receive. We all may talk…

— Natalie Angier

“To endure the cross is not a tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Spiritually, I'm a floating entity, but Buddhism is as close as I can get to describing it.

— Donovan

The company you keep, defines you and your level of faith, choose your friends wisely.

— Anonymous

“enlightened ones do not seek God. They seek only to destroy the faith of those who do.”

— Shulem Deen

“Cosmic Ordering is absent in body but present in spirit.”

— Stephen Richards

Randomness scares people. Religion is a way to explain randomness.

— Fran Lebowitz

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

— Michelle Shocked

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you, not for you.

— Wayne Dyer

Like billowing clouds, Like the incessant gurgle of the brook The longing of the spirit can never be stilled.

— Anonymous

It takes a lot of physical and spiritual energy to balance on one wheel. Seen?

— Peter Tosh

Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated

— C. S. Lewis

A spiritual search in art is looking for meaning outside of yourself.

— Ross Bleckner

“religion has been the historically most widespread and effective instrumentality of legitimation.”

— Peter L. Berger

“If religion, she also liked to say, is the opiate of the masses, fundamentalism is the amphetamine.”

— C.D. Wright