Religion Quotes · Page 658

Where our language suggests a body and there is none: there, we should like to say, is a spirit.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

— Sam Shoemaker

“Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.”

— Sam Harris

A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves what everyone else believes.

— W. Somerset Maugham

He who marries the spirit of the age soon becomes a widower.

— Helen Keller

I am also a painter. I paint the hearts of people with colors of spirituality.

— Meher Baba

What we really need, after all, is not to defend the Bible but to understand it.

— Millar Burrows

It’s absolutely absurd to say you are a disciple of Jesus Christ yet not bear the fruit of Jesus Christ.

— Paul Washer

The gracious, eternal God permits the spirit to green and bloom and to bring forth the most marvelous fruit, surpassing anything a…

— Johannes Tauler

“Scientific People, unscientific mind; why are we dividing the world which could shine? Between religion and science, all what matters is human…

— Santosh Kalwar

Wherever I see some mystique, be it virtue or family, faith or fatherland, there I must commit some indecent act.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit … will teach you all things and remind you of everything I have told you. John 14:26”

— Beth Moore

Following Christ isn't something that can be done halfheartedly or on the side. It is not a label we can display when…

— Francis Chan

If you leave the church service thinking about how good the pastor was, he has missed the mark. If you leave consumed…

— Howard G. Hendricks

I am confident in saying that Oberlin did more for me than vice versa. I took a fantastic class in religion, which…

— Richard N. Haass

For every gain in deep certitude there is a corresponding growth of superficial "doubt." This doubt is by no means opposed to…

— Thomas Merton

Dialogue is a space where we may see the assumptions which lay beneath the surface of our thoughts, assumptions which drive us,…

— David Bohm

“When the clergy addressed General Washington on his departure from the government, it was observed in their consultation that he had never…

— Thomas Jefferson

The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about…

— John F Walvoord

“Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns. Faith also means reaching…

— Anne Lamott

“People don’t often mention God these days. God has become a taboo subject that you only refer to when heartache takes over…

— Effrosyni Moschoudi

“I am the slave of the Master of Prophets And my fealty to him has no beginning. I am a slave of…

— Yusuf Nabhani

“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...”

— T. Rafael Cimino

We now live in a secular humanist theocracy. I want to change that to a government with God at its head.

— Gary DeMar

“a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses.”

— Neil Gaiman

The answer to the ancient question Why is there something rather than nothing would be that nothingis unstable.

— Frank Wilczek

We in Tunisia have no problem with respecting other people's religion, and we have a long tradition of that.

— Rashid al-Ghannushi

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

— William James

...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.

— E. M. Forster

You need to know your faith. You cannot give what you do not have.

— John Corapi

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

— Minnie Pearl

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

— Anonymous

Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.

— Charles Spurgeon

I began to see that my problems, seen spiritually, were really my soul's plusses.

— Lionel Blue

Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.

— John Calvin

I will play my part by singing the spirit into every open heart.

— Bobby Womack

I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.

— E. M. Forster

“When I don’t have peace physically, I don’t have peace spiritually. I can’t separate the two. Nor should I.”

— Lysa TerKeurst