Religion Quotes · Page 485

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

— George Bernard Shaw

Seriousness is not Calvinistic, it's not a renunciation, it's the very opposite of that.

— Leonard Cohen

Faith receives, day by day, what a loving Heavenly Father apportions.

— Elisabeth Elliot

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The most persuasive gospel tract is the exemplary life of a faithful Latter-day Saint.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“Spirituality exist in testing and experiencing the depth of inner peace consistently.”

— Amit Ray

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Jesus didn't come to make us Christian. Jesus came to make us fully human.

— Hans Rookmaaker

More even than Southern Presbyterians and Southern Methodists, the Baptists provided the great mass of Confederate enlisted men.

— Harold Bloom

God is living in the circle of eternity, and we the [straight] line cut from the world must be hammered, bent and…

— Robert J McCracken

We have to forego some good things in order to choose others that are better or best because they develop faith in…

— Dallin H. Oaks

“How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small…

— Madeleine L'Engle

Which was not in the spirit of love | It is not a sin/crime the party that you, It is also the…

— Mak_786

Religion is an easy target for accusations of repression and misogyny, but achievement in the sacred and therefore socio-political sphere was often…

— Bettany Hughes

The Living God alone can make us living men; the mighty God alone can make us mighty men; the loving God alone…

— Peter Forsyth

I just hate one-dimensional portrayals of religion; it's too cheap and easy to do, and ignores the nuances that go into having…

— Vera Farmiga

Its a call-to-action to rise from the dead and actually live. Were born spiritually dead, and Im calling for everyone to become…

— Trip Lee

“What is considered as a vow (vrat)? For this Dada [Gnani Purush], the five mahavrats (great vows of truth, non-possessiveness, non-violence, non-stealing,…

— Dada Bhagwan

The inviolability of the seal of confession is so fundamental to the very nature of the sacrament that any proposal which undermines…

— Sean Brady

Remember that each of us has his own cross. The Golgotha of this cross is our heart: it is being lifted or…

— Theophan the Recluse

We are responsible for one another. Collectively so. The world is a joint effort. We might say it is like a giant…

— Betty Eadie

“The moment men begin to care more for education than for religion, they begin to care more for ambition than for education.…

— G.K. Chesterton

(Because) the notion of absolute truth is difficult to sustain outside the context of religion, ethical conduct is not something we engage…

— Dalai Lama

The people are drugged with religion; and that's why the elites - who understand that it is just a ritual, and understand…

— Louis Farrakhan

Art is unthinkable without risk and spiritual self-sacrifice.

— Boris Pasternak

The Gita is the greatest gospel of spiritual works ever yet given to the race.

— Sri Aurobindo

Let planning be the springboard, so that spirituality can be our splash.

— Robin S. Sharma

“Let’s be honest: nothing stays pure once humans get involved.”

— Rove Monteux

I certainly do not support excluding faith from public life.

— Safak Pavey

Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology.

— J. I. Packer

Some believe in Jesus, some believe in Allah, but a brother like me will just believe in Money.

— Erdem

“You can choose to disrespect me but I will not give you permission to hurt my spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Is that why I went wild over her? Because once I saw her truly? Is devotion as simple as that?”

— Denis Johnson

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

— Benjamin Clementine

“Every Christian must subject the rule of King Jesus Christ.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

I can preach until your deaf and dumb, I'm in that soul saving army beating on that big bass drum.

— Elvis Presley

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth.

— Pope John Paul II

For the religious the holy is truth, for the philosophic the truth is holy.

— Ludwig Feuerbach

Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations.

— Carl Sagan