Religion Quotes · Page 639

Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.

— Jonathan Edwards

“Religious belief does not do away with either natural or human law from which sovereignty is derived.”

— Timothy Brook

I believe having religion in your life creates the potential for long-lasting relationships.

— Anonymous

The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost.

— Charles Spurgeon

“They implied that culture, independent of religion, was more to blame for the misfortunes of women.”

— Farzana Hassan

Leftism seeks to undo most of the values that are distinct to Judeo-Christian religion.

— Dennis Prager

Perhaps these Ten Commandments cases will be the turning point in the legal war against religion.

— Cliff Stearns

“Human happiness stems from faith in God, from human association, and from a desire to live and let live.”

— Ed Webster

When spiritual, metaphysical, material, or immaterial events come into my life, I can only fix them by way of painting.

— Max Beckmann

We communicate like the burrows of foxes, in silence and darkness, under ground. We are undermined by faith and love.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Never do business with a religious son-of-a-bitch. His word ain't worth a shit -- not with the Good Lord telling him how…

— William S. Burroughs

I'm suddenly worried people will think that I believe their religion can be summed up on four sex-obsessed sentences.

— Ryan North

Changes in societal structure and in art would possess more credibility if they had their origins in the soul and spirit. If…

— Marc Chagall

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

— David Alan Harvey

The great achievement of the Catholic Church lay in harmonizing, civilizing the deepest impulses of ordinary, ignorant people.

— Kenneth Clark

The greatest tragedy in the history of Christianity was neither the Crusades nor the Reformation nor the Inquisition, but rather the split…

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Beneath the surface level of conditioned thinking in every one of us there is a single living spirit. The still small voice…

— Eknath Easwaran

If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one…

— Scott Adams

“Why would god allow the Holocaust to happen? If god made everything, why did he invent sin to trick us and then…

— Matthew Quick

Scripture is profitable for training in righteousness. No one succeeds at the highest level in sports without working out. No one makes…

— Kevin DeYoung

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's…

— Criss Jami

We try to promote the Christmas season and remind people that it is a season of peace. That's what the season's real…

— Michael McDonald

Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to…

— Henri Nouwen

“If you want to fight hell and the power of darkness that seek to destroy the hearts of our daughters, I know…

— Jim Anderson

“If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.”

— Khalil Gibran

Do every-day with faith and if it doesn't go well, then it wasn't faith.

— Terry Mark

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

— Wilson Mizner

Every good writer has much idiom; it is the life and spirit of language.

— Walter Savage Landor

True faith will no more fail to produce [good works] than the sun can cease to give light.

— Martin Luther

The church arises only from the gospel. And a distorted church usually coincides with a distorted gospel.

— Mark Dever

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

— Saint Augustine

The only thing wrong with love and faith and belief is not having it.

— Haley James Scott

I'm into the true meaning of Christmas - Faith, Family, and Facial hair.

— Jase Robertson

“for the spirit God gives us does not make us timid, but gives us power love and self discipline.”

— Anonymous

“Fighting for peace is a beautiful spiritual revolution.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

The authority of Scripture is greater than the comprehension of the whole of man's reason.

— Martin Luther

“Is it a virus, a drug, or a religion... What's the difference”

— Neal Stephenson

I think our problem is a spiritual one.where there is no Jesus Christ.Evil always reigns.

— Anonymous

Faith enables the believing soul to treat the future as present and the invisible as seen.

— J. Oswald Sanders

Spirituality has nothing to do with church, and everything to do with hair.

— RuPaul