Religion Quotes · Page 558

“The totality of love is just three simple acts; devotion, loyalty and sacrifice.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A delusion held by one person is a mental illness, held by a few is a cult, held by many is a…

— Robert Todd Carroll

To me, anything that is a church is really just far too close minded.

— Marilyn Manson

You can have faith or you can have control, but you cannot have both.

— Mark Batterson

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

— Pierre Bayle

When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.

— Bell Hooks

“Cut me off from the Church? They can't do that! I repent do damn fast!”

— J. Golden Kimball

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

— Austin O'Malley

Through the Guru, I have obtained the Lord's spiritual wisdom. I have obtained the Sublime Essence of the Lord. My mind is…

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib

That's why I believe in a Constitution which separates church from state. I've seen what happens when they get in cahoots.

— Craig Ferguson

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they've had forever. And they've been overrun by organized…

— Alice Walker

[R]eligion cannot share the material strength of the rulers without being burdened with some of the animosity roused against them.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the…

— Edward Gibbon

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community…

— Debbie Harry

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the…

— James G. Frazer

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

— Charlotte Bronte

I really didn't know what to think about the veil. Deep down I was very religious but as a family we were…

— Marjane Satrapi

I was exposed to a mix of cultures, lots of different religions and beliefs. I was a spiritual kid and went to…

— Harvey Fierstein

I suspect that relatively few people will sit down and read 1250 pages [ of The Enduring Authority of the Christian Scriptures.]…

— D. A. Carson

“Descartes argued “I think, therefore I am,” and people after Freud translated that into the modern vernacular by saying, “I feel, therefore…

— David F. Wells

Life is holy and it is for all of us. God's design, I cannot understand myself and I never will, but I…

— F. Sionil José

“If we read the text alone, assuming that the word 'cross' can only derive its meaning from the later death of Jesus,…

— John Howard Yoder

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Everyone talks about religious liberty, but no one believes it. So let us be blunt about it: we must use the doctrine…

— Gary North

“You have to go through the fires to be tested by faith.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“ROM8.15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear;”

— Anonymous

Destinations are less important than the spirit you bring to them.

— Pico Iyer

I believe in God, and that's a personal relationship that I have, but I'm not religious in any way.

— Joe Jonas

I don't agree with registering people based on ethnicity or religion.

— John F. Kelly

How can we trust a religion that has advocated slavery and the subjugation of women throughout history?

— Perry Marshall

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

— Mark Twain

“Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate,”

— Karen Armstrong

Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance.

— Aldous Huxley

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

— Herbert Read

“Religion must bring oneness, otherwise it’s not religion.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

— Michael Newdow

“Don't just point people to church. Point them to Jesus.”

— Jerry Kinard

Let the Bible fill the memory, rule the heart, and guide the feet.

— Henrietta Mears

The Scoutmaster guides the boy in the spirit of an older brother.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

A religious man is a person... whose greatest passion is compassion.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel