Religion Quotes · Page 472

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

— Morihei Ueshiba

You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.

— Miller Williams

“Among leaders who have made the greatest impact through ages, I would consider Muhammad before Jesus Christ.”

— James Gavin

“The spirit of perseverance and persistence will calm mighty storms.”

— Lailah GiftyAkita

“I want to live not for selfish gain, but for selfless devotion.”

— Tanner Di Bella

Truth is on a curve whose asymptote our spirit follows eternally.

— Leo Errera

I believe transparency in government is key to restoring our nation's faith in its elected leaders.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

“We must rise up together, or I fear we will fall, apart.”

— Grace L. Schwarz

I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion…

— Robert H. Schuller

For me, the beginning of sharing my faith with people began by throwing out Christianity and embracing Christian spirituality, a nonpolitical mysterious…

— Donald Miller

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good…

— Rebecca West

“Although i hate having to admit this, but the one good thing those annoying communists did right was to treat religion like…

— Carlos Zen

To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions…

— Anonymous

A person can be religious and still respect secular values and not talk about Jesus all the time as though every American…

— Susan Jacoby

It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the…

— Anonymous

There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.

— J. I. Packer

According to the celestial multiplication table, once one is three, and three times one is one, and according to heavenly subtraction if…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…

— Theodore Dalrymple

There is not a Musselman[Muslim] alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy…

— Denis Diderot

Religions fulfill deep-seated psychological needs for people, and if you don't get it from a specific religious doctrine, you'll get it from…

— James Cameron

When I was little, my parents belonged to a cult, a big Buddhist sect called Soka Gakkai. I didn't have any particular…

— Takashi Murakami

“We are spiritual children of God the Father. We preach it. We sing it. But do we really understand it? Sometimes it’s…

— Toni Sorenson

“What we now want most is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth and the elimination…

— Nikola Tesla

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. We are, and must be one and…

— Charlotte Brontë

Woodrow Kroll is dead-on in his assessment of the church's lack of engagement with the Word.

— Howard G. Hendricks

“Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan.”

— Herman Melville

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

— Fiona Apple

All religions will pass but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance.

— Vasily Rozanov

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

— Kate Baldwin

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

— Rudyard Kipling

Besides that, I believe one thing: there is a Lord God! And this Lord God creates the peoples.

— Adolf Hitler

Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.

— Miracle On 34th Street

They put the Negroes in the schools, and now they've driven God out.

— George Andrews

Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Atheism is not a religion. Abstinence is not a sex position.

— Richard Dawkins

I am a deeply spiritual and religious person both privately and publicly.

— Lynsi Torres

“If we read the Gospel, we shall know the goodness of the Good News.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.

— James Melvin Washington

“This will of God forms the heart of pure religion and at the same time the soul of all true theology.”

— Herman Bavinck

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

— Anonymous