Religion Quotes · Page 518

You can fool some of the people some of the time -- and that's enough to make a decent living.

— Anonymous

Religion is the reaction of human nature to its search for God.

— Alfred North Whitehead

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

— Ken Livingstone

Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.

— Muriel Spark

In the Jewish religion it says - in the time of deepest darkest night act as if the morning has already come

— Marianne Williamson

“The link between the spirit and the mind is the deep heart". ~R. Alan Woods [2012]”

— R. Alan Woods

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

— Samael Aun Weor

Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.

— Haile Selassie

“The praying mind, by its mere attitude of faith and earnest expectation, opens itself out to the tremendous inflow of Divine Energy.”

— A. P. Mukerji

“Jesus’s full saving work, not just his instructions, and that kids will be stuck in the pressure-filled mode of trying to measure…

— Jack Klumpenhower

Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

— C. S. Lewis

The central fact is that overwhelmingly suicide-terrorist attacks are not driven by religion as much as they are by a clear strategic…

— Robert Pape

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which…

— Francis Bacon

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to…

— George Orwell

“Incomparably beyond, and above us all! Whether still on earth or now in heaven her spirit is at home with God!”

— Emily Brontë

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return.

— Isabel Yosito

I have learned that much of my spiritual progress does not come directly from God, but through my ability to humble myself…

— Francis Frangipane

“Too often scholars have thought and even suggested that what happened during and after Constantine was that the church sought to replace…

— Ben Witherington III

I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the…

— Frederick Douglass

Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to…

— Mark Steyn

“Who, among Christians today, is a disciple of Jesus, in any substantive sense of the word “disciple”? A disciple is a learner,…

— Dallas Willard

The spiritual aspect of my work has more to do with the sense that things in the world can be perceived and…

— Abelardo Morell

God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants…

— A. B. Simpson

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion…

— Wernher von Braun

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

— Charles Dickens

“Organized religion: where men write the rules, women follow them, and the children pay the price.”

— Brad Deep

...I want my spirituality to rid me of hate, not give me reason for it.

— Donald Miller

“You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul.”

— Joyce Meyer

I venture to say that it's not enough to respect and tolerate religions other than our own.

— Thomas Keating

“That which takes one away from religion (dharma) is bad company (kusang).”

— Dada Bhagwan

Faith is belief without evidence and reason; coincidentally that's also the definition of delusion.

— Richard Dawkins

“Art is a spirit and soul thing. Anything else is mere desperation.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Truth is truth, whether labeled 'science' or 'religion.'

— Ezra Taft Benson

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.

— Henry David Thoreau

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

— Aisha bint Abi Bakr

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

— David F. Wells

Love is wicked...it doesn't choose the colour , shape , size or religion...

— Aline

“In a true sense, the world is not to be won. The home (family) needs to be won.”

— Dada Bhagwan

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

— D. H. Lawrence