Religion Quotes · Page 622

Religious belief is without reason and without dignity, and its record is near-universally dreadful.

— Martin Amis

The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life.

— Nhat Hanh

The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.

— Rajneesh

The church is often like a football stadium where 22 people need a rest and thousands of people need exercise.

— Timothy Keller

It (the Bible) has never bowed its head before the discoveries of science.

— Billy Graham

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

— Mark Twain

“Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.”

— Todd Stocker

I'd had a vaguely Jewish upbringing, but no deep connection to faith.

— Andrew Solomon

“When one person sees or hears something that isn’t there, it’s called a delusion. When a small group of people have the…

— Anonymous

I didn't really think a lot about religion, but I didn't really think a lot against it, either. I was one of…

— Bill Maher

[A]ll churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for…

— Thomas Paine

The Kingdom of Heaven is within us. God is within us. He is the Soul of our souls. See Him in your…

— Swami Vivekananda

The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materialist than it cares to acknowledge.

— Lionel Blue

It is serving God and others persistently with full heart and soul that turns testimony of truth into unbreakable spiritual strength.

— Henry B. Eyring

Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The future is religion and commerce, aphrodisiac and Benzedrine, a mother of mysterious comfort and a mistress of familiar ravishments ever on…

— Eugene Kennedy

I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed…

— Sally Lloyd-Jones

I see that I am inwardly fashioned for faith and not for fear. Fear is not my native land; faith is. I…

— E. Stanley Jones

In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His…

— M. Russell Ballard

Religion, media and schools tell us to disregard animals, view them as commodities, property and resources, and convince us that animals cannot…

— Gary Yourofsky

Turkey is immersed in a profound social and political conflict between secularists, who have been in power since the republic was founded,…

— Stephen Kinzer

Notice how people can sit for hours and talk to one another, but call us to pray and we find it to…

— David Wallace

“Christianity may be good and Satanism evil. Under the Constitution, however, both are neutral. This is an important, but difficult, concept for…

— Carl Sagan

“The Bible became a jewel in the hands of the Reformers not because it was a “handbook for happy living” or a…

— Matthew Barrett

Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

— Jim Caviezel

“Bread for me is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.”

— Nicholas Berdyaev

Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.

— Wally Lamb

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

— Swami Satchidananda

Lukewarmness I account a sin, as great in love as in religion.

— Abraham Cowley

It's easier to have faith in yourself if you have faith in God.

— James Cook

Faith is an absence of doubt, and doubt is an absence of faith.

— Senoraroy

Your faith will perform miracles, especially when you get your hands and feet involved.

— Anonymous

“I salute you Brave spirit Who has swallowed so much And tasted so little.”

— Leonard Cohen

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

— Eugene O'Neill

I think the reason Jesus is so popular, just on a celebrity level, is that he died at the peak of his…

— Marc Maron

I have tremendous faith in God that all things happen for a reason, even if we don't understand.

— Terri Irwin

I have this unshakeable faith. I believe in myself; I believe in God.

— Laurence Fishburne

Jacob did not cease to be a Saint because he had to attend to his flocks.

— Teresa of Avila

“The first step of grace to seek knowledge begins with the reading of the Holy Scripture.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita