Religion Quotes · Page 555

I think the world is in the mess it's in because we are spiritually ignorant.

— Shirley MacLaine

The average Christian leaves planet earth never having led anyone to Christ.

— George Barna

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

— Anonymous

There are no forces on this planet more dangerous to all of us than the fanaticisms of fundamentalism.

— Daniel Dennett

You translate everything-whether physical, mental, or spiritual into muscular tension.

— F. Matthias Alexander

The Gospel is called the good news. My message is a message of hope, that's God's [message] for you.

— Joel Osteen

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

— Robert Heilbroner

Prayer, in many ways, is the supreme expression of our faith in God.

— Anonymous

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into…

— John Henry Jowett

“I can worry myself into a state of spiritual ennui over questions like "What good does it do to pray if God…

— Philip Yancey

We don't have two lives-a "spiritual" life here and a "regular" life there. Our life in Christ is one unified lifestyle, and…

— Steve McVey

In any attempt to bridge the domains of experience belonging to the spiritual and physical sides of nature, time occupies the key…

— Arthur Eddington

The Christian religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even at this day cannot be believed by any reasonable…

— David Hume

The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which…

— Charles Spurgeon

“If you believe in resurrection, you believe that the living God will put his world to rights and that if God wants…

— N.T. Wright

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall…

— Bible

“If we just preach general doctrine and ethics from Scripture, we are not preaching the gospel. The gospel is the good news…

— Timothy Keller

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good…

— Edward Abbey

I am a spiritual person in an eastern religion kind of way. I learned that happiness for all of us is a…

— Tom Ford

If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one…

— Doris Lessing

We have different levels of slavery. We've got educational slavery. All the major religions of the world, even Christianity and Islam, are…

— John Henrik Clarke

Get to Know Yourself Once you start getting acquainted with yourselves, finding out who you are and where you belong and who…

— Boyd K. Packer

Having been through a tremendous amount of emotional pain, to process it properly, to be able to have it make sense and…

— Mariel Hemingway

“Neither Emma's tears nor her rage were enough to make Joseph monogamous, however; nor were the prevailing mores of the day. He…

— Jon Krakauer

Sometimes you have to smile by faith. If you'll smile by faith, soon the joy will follow.

— Joel Osteen

Evangelization is leading people to Jesus, not ourselves.

— Paul George

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

— John Paul Jones

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

— Felicia Hemans

“Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.”

— Herman Melville

I get the feeling more and more that religion is being left behind.

— Richard Dawkins

Our religion does not discriminate according to color, sex or anything else. What counts is piety and faith.

— King Hussein I

Spirituality and the secular world are not that far apart.

— Robert Hood

“Personaliy does not represent the religion, religions will amend charecters.”

— Kamaran Ihsan Salih

What is happening within Christianity is that it doesn't know it needs to promote itself.

— Stephen Baldwin

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

— George W. Bush

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

— Frank Herbert

“Dios impuso a los hombres el deber de dominar a las mujeres que son, fundamentalmente, débiles y estúpidas.”

— V.C. Andrews

“Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is the Great Wall of China between them!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Sorry the closest your holiday comes to a spiritual figurehead is Adam Sandler

— Anonymous

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.

— Anonymous