Religion Quotes · Page 457

When religious leaders get involved in elections, it is usually with a reactionary social agenda.

— Elizabeth Joan Smith

We cannot survive spiritually with one foot in the Church and the other in the world.

— Bruce R. McConkie

“Forgiveness and faith are like writing a story. They take time, effort, revisions. When”

— Daisy Hernandez

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

— Max Lucado

“All believers need to become teachers, shepherds, ministers, and good-news-bearers.”

— Henry Hon

Revival is God revealing Himself to men in awesome holiness and irresistible power.

— Arthur Wallis

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight...”

— Brian A. McBride

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

— T. B. Joshua

“Where evangelical spiritualities tend to move from the individual to the family to the church, Reformed piety moves in the other direction:…

— Michael S. Horton

Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

If the biblical writers were writing today they might spell out some things more clearly, given how easily even Christians fall into…

— Roger E. Olson

On a spiritual level, it's as though with my sighted eye I see what's before me, and with my unsighted eye I…

— Alice Walker

Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.

— Iyanla Vanzant

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in…

— Ann Bridge

Nonbelievers like myself stand beside you, dumbstruck by the Muslim hordes who chant death to whole nations of the living. But we…

— Sam Harris

“Now we, if not in the spirit, have been caught up to see our earth, our mother, Gaia Mater, set like a…

— William Golding

“Religion is our negotiation with God to try to get his help in exchange for our good behavior. We promise to do…

— Michael Spencer

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The…

— Tommy Chong

There's going to be government and politics that aren't representative of everyone. So, we have to really take it by a person…

— Alex Dodd

“You have been deceived. Spiritualism is no more a science than thievery. For that's all this is--very skilled dodgers stealing money from…

— Libba Bray

If the Bible is not the Word of God and inspired, the whole of Christendom for 1800 years has been under an…

— J. C. Ryle

Those to whom God has imparted religion by feeling of the heart are very fortunateand are rightly convinced. Butto those who do…

— Anonymous

“Dancing with the Devil is a lot more fun than dancing alone.”

— Trevor Parks

“Learning requires work. This is as true of learning the Bible as it is of learning algebra.”

— Anonymous

My spirit has become dry because it forgets to feed on You.

— John of the Cross

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

— Jonathan Swift

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Studying Theology doesn't make you religious any more than studying Psychology makes you crazy.”

— Ashley Chappell

It would be intolerant if I advocated the banning of religion, but of course I never have.

— Richard Dawkins

To an honest judge, the alleged marriage between religion and science is a shallow, empty, spin-doctored sham.

— Richard Dawkins

“A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.”

— John A. Buehrens

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

— Eugene O'Neill

“Patty believed that parents have a duty to teach their children how to recognize reality when they see it.”

— Jonathan Franzen

[A] high minded gallantry in defense of the foundations of Christian culture.

— Pope Pius XII

If the main contribution that Christians make to culture is complaining about it, we're doing something wrong.

— Eric Metaxas

“I'm slowly losing faith in humanity, one idiot at a time...”

— José N. Harris

America... Cherishes no purpose save to merit the favor of Almighty God.

— Calvin Coolidge

The Christian life is participation in the encounter of Christ with the world.

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer