Religion Quotes · Page 454

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

— Sigmund Freud

It's an article of faith that the novels I've loved will live inside me forever.

— Pat Conroy

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

— Philip Toshio Sudo

In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

— Paulo Coelho

Many biblical verses are like inkblot tests, revealing more about us than about the text in question.

— Harold S. Kushner

But each time you use spirit, you're more likely to go crazy.” “Already crazy about you, Sage.

— Richelle Mead

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Once you assume a creator and a plan, it makes us objects in a cruel experiment whereby we are created sick and…

— Christopher Hitchens

I think the Indian model of respecting the uniqueness of each religion and, of every state is what makes the country great.

— Kabir Bedi

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to…

— Thomas Jefferson

I regard irreligious people as pioneers. If there had been no priesthood the world would have advanced ten thousand times better than…

— Anandi Gopal Joshi

Christ's Church is, above all, the spiritual temple where every Christian knows he has his place: he knows he has it, and…

— Pope John XXIII

I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel it would be truer…

— James O. Fraser

“The practice of mutilating women’s genitals in Eritrea predated the arrival of both religions, and for hundreds of years neither faith had…

— Geraldine Brooks

The establishment clause was transformed from a shield for religion into a cover for the official sanctioning of religious tolerance.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

“You wake up one morning and all your spiritual feelings are gone. You pray, but nothing happens. You rebuke the devil, but…

— Floyd McClung

To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed…

— Pope John XXIII

Do you call yourselves Christians? Does then the religion of Him whom you call your Savior inspire your spirit, and guide your…

— Joseph Brant

“Luther and Calvin believed that both the Roman church on the right and the Zwinglian and Anabaptist churches on the left made…

— Frederick Dale Bruner

“The Holy Spirit did not go into such detail about the Pharisees in the New Testament just so we could understand a…

— J.D. Greear

“But its exclusive character and irreconcileable hostility to the religious cults and ceremonies with which the whole social life of the city-state…

— Christopher Henry Dawson

People in the world wish to make things rigid, things which are of the finest nature which words cannot explain. When a…

— Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Humanity was never meant for mediocrity. Yet many among us are now, and will forever remain, limited by their profound lack of…

— Richard Duarte

Alabama has a history of safeguarding our freedom of religion.

— Luther Strange

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

— Deepak Chopra

“Faith is trusting, that no matter what plan you had, God has a better one.”

— Chris Burkmenn

Churches are like announcement factories that pump toxic levels of noise pollution into the atmosphere.

— Scott McClellan

while religion is ethical, it by no means follows that ethics is religion.

— Georgia Harkness

People are far more important than rigid rules and demanding expectations.

— Charles R. Swindoll

The Word of the Lord endures forever. The Bible is to judge us; we're not to judge the Bible.

— Adrian Rogers

The spirit of poetry combines the profundity of the philosopher and the child's delight in bright pictures.

— Franz Grillparzer

So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

The slightest cooperation with God's grace can provoke a massive spiritual change.

— Robert Barron

“God has not given us the spirit of fear. So imagine where your fear coming from. It's from somewhere else!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.

— Elizabeth Ann Seton

“If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.”

— Alastair Agutter

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly.

— T. B. Joshua

It is pleasant that there will be no religions in heaven.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Your devotion is nothing more than cowardice. You would not be here if you had anywhere else to go.

— Anonymous