Religion Quotes · Page 464

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

— Samuel Richardson

I have my work and my faith... If that's boring to some people, I can't tell you how much I don't care.

— Madonna Ciccone

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

— Howard G. Hendricks

“Proof is not the end of belief or faith, but the reward for faith!”

— Spencer J. Atkinson

“What if all religions were stories, and all stories were true.”

— Rick Chiantaretto

...It really IS easier to experience spiritual connection when your life is in the process of coming apart.

— Anne Lamott

I think I've been very lucky all my life because the writing and the faith seem to go together.

— John Tavener

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

— John Quincy Adams

Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Most believers learn passively from clergy. However, no matter how good and uplifting this person's teaching, as long as the members are…

— Henry Hon

Catholic dioceses typically spent hundreds of thousands of dollars recklessly, then filed for bankruptcy. The goal was to avoid the money going…

— Dan Rather

I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I…

— Caroline Dhavernas

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To form the habit of finding fault constantly, is very damaging to spiritual life; it is about the lowest and meanest position…

— D.L. Moody

I don't feel frightened by not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way…

— Richard P. Feynman

You are living in a time when opportunities for self-empowerment, expanded awareness and spiritual growth appear to be unlimited.

— Barbara Marciniak

Dogmatic religion has been used to fantastic effect over thousands of years to fuel and exploit emotions like fear and guilt, and…

— David Icke

Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven…

— Laozi

No one should ever be locked away simply because they share the same race, ethnicity, or religion as a spy or terrorist.…

— Fred Korematsu

Art is something about the spirit... if you want to make something that has a spirit, and speaks to the spirit of…

— Shary Boyle

“Much later, I checked out the Ten Commandments of the Abrahamic religions. You know how many of them contain a reference to…

— Masaji Ishikawa

In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

“The wonderful news of the gospel is that Jesus frees us from trying to impress God or others because he has impressed…

— Jonathan K. Dodson

It took me years, but letting go of religion has been the most profound wake up of my life. I feel I…

— Julia Sweeney

“*Forever* is an illusion that human beings promise each other when they are horny, or, trying to appear holy.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.”

— Jodi Picoult

“The human spirit needs physical movement more than the body does.”

— Lisa Tamati

I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.

— Eddie Izzard

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

— Ramakrishna

“I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Harold Wilson is a petty bourgeois and will remain so in spirit even if they make him a Viscount.

— Neil Kinnock

Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals.

— Mark Twain

“All are ‘relative religions’, they do not give Moksha (ultimate liberation) but they push one towards Moksha.”

— Dada Bhagwan

“Hold the flame of faith, it quench all doubt of darkness.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To change, it takes a decision based on faith, faith takes forgetting everything you thought you knew.

— Shannon Leto

“Gospel is the announcement of who God insists you are. You’re”

— Rob Bell

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

— George Eliot

A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

— John Eudes

“A religion that demands absolutely irrefutable obedience, is anything but religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

— Timothy Keller