Religion Quotes · Page 477

And ye shall offer for a sacrifice unto me a broken heart and a contrite spirit.

— Robert K. Dellenbach

It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well.

— Dalai Lama

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

— Benjamin Franklin

“Organised religion: the world's largest pyramid scheme”

— Bernad Katz

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

— Paula White

“A religious woman is a slave that advocates the slavery.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

— Anonymous

I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.

— Rachel McAdams

Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short, to the…

— Honore de Balzac

We can't know at any given time how God will bless our faithful witness. So the apparent numerical growth of the church…

— Mark Dever

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said…

— Greg Laurie

The aim of preaching is not the elucidation of a subject, but the transformation of a person. Our task is the sharing…

— Halford Luccock

He that has doctrinal knowledge and speculation only, without affection, never is engaged in the business of religion.

— Jonathan Edwards

Through all the darkness, through all the shame of which men are capable, the spirit of man will remain alive on this…

— Ayn Rand

Witness state is not a mental state, it is a state of a spiritual ascent where you become a witness. Best way…

— Nirmala Srivastava

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a…

— Mark Twain

“Every time I took a step outside my comfort zone, I grew spiritually. I discovered God’s plan and stopped operating within the…

— Lysa TerKeurst

“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were…

— Rita Levi-Montalcini

The evangelical task primarily is the preaching of the Gospel, in the interest of individual regeneration by the supernatural grace of God,…

— Carl F. H. Henry

“The notion that the intense and unprecedented mixture of ethnic and religious groups in American life was soon to blend into a…

— David L. Sills

The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not…

— Dalai Lama

Listen to these words of [apostle] Paul: "We war not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers, and the rulers…

— Louis Farrakhan

“Your soul rages. You cannot control your spirits within your body, so you need this to force others to your will." The…

— Tracy Hickman Laura Hickman

“And what does God ask of you?” “To fly without wings. To do what seems impossible. To cling to our loves through…

— Patricia Storace

The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.

— Yotam Ottolenghi

It confuses me that Christian living is not simpler. The gospel, the very good news, is simple.

— Donald Miller

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

— Conrad Black

“And so Mr. Brown came to be respected even by the clan, because he trod softly on its faith.”

— Chinua Achebe

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

— Mary Martha Sherwood

When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.

— Edmund Waller

I just look at death as not a threat. It's inevitable, and I have an assurance of eternal life.

— Jimmy Carter

“He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God is poor in spirit”

— John Calvin

“He said, “It is finished!” And bowing His head, He gave up His spirit. – John 19:30”

— Robert J. Morgan

Resurrection is a belief and hope in restoring this world.

— Rob Bell

It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox.

— Carl Jung

My faith is everything. It's the bedrock, the foundation and the core of who I am.

— Maria Taylor

There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Faith is tossed about by various doubts, so that the minds of the godly are rarely at peace.

— John Calvin

My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It could be that one of the greatest hindrances to evangelism is the poverty of our own experience.

— Billy Graham