Religion Quotes · Page 669

“Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.”

— Solas

Nobody is so poor he has nothing to give, and nobody is so rich he has nothing to receive.

— Pope John Paul II

When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know.

— Mark Twain

Christians should be troublemakers, creators of uncertainty, agents of a dimension incompatible with society.

— Jacques Ellul

Prayer is The world in tune, A spirit-voyce, And vocall joyes, Whose Eccho is heaven's blisse.

— Henry Vaughan

The religious man fears, the man of honor scorns, to do an ill action.

— Joseph Addison

You know that you have fully experienced love when you turn into love - that is the spiritual goal of life.

— Deepak Chopra

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

— Reza Aslan

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

Respecting religions is not simply a question of universal tolerance; it is a question of believing that all religions are true.

— Narendra Modi

The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.

— Pope Benedict XVI

The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who…

— Benjamin Harrison

I therefore think that I was right in trying from the outset of the Olympic revival to rekindle a religious awareness.

— Pierre de Coubertin

“Maybe I was being stupid, but an old faith was stirring inside me, a willingness to lean on the tides of the…

— Harper Fox

North Eurasia is one of the best examples of religious tolerance and peaceful coexistence of Islam and Christianity. This is a rare…

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

“If faith makes people buy an entire package of myths and values without asking too many questions, scientists are only slightly better.”

— Frans de Waal

The trouble with God isn't that He so seldom makes Himself known to us... He's holding you and me and everybody else…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church, and…

— John Adams

“There is a quality of lightness, easiness, and in some sense blatant unseriousness that pervades Classical Christianity's dialogue with modernity. The Christian…

— Anonymous

Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Now, celebrations become tiring because they unfold in noisy chattering. The liturgy is sick. The most striking symptom of this sickness is…

— Robert Sarah

“understand better the world in which it was born and how inextricably connected it was to that world; to appreciate the wonder…

— Richard Elliott Friedman

As for the spirit of poverty, I do not remember any moment when it was not in me, although only to that…

— Simone Weil

Realized souls in the Hindu tradition are called rishis, but realized souls are not confined to the Hindu tradition. Seekers across geographical…

— Ramesh Bijlani

The spiritual activity of millennia is deposited in language.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Keep pressing forward and focused on your goals. Hard work does have a "pay day"!!-”

— Anita R. Sneed-Carter

Prayer is the hand of faith on the door knob of your heart, inviting Jesus to enter.

— Max Lucado

The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.

— John Burroughs

We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves.

— Christine Caine

I hold that any religion that satisfies the individual urge is valid for that person.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“Life remains unchanged till a leap of faith runs towards heaven”

— Santosh Kalwar

Sticks and stones may break your bones but mean words can tear holes in your spirit.

— Babloo

My political beliefs are my moral, quasi-religious framework.

— Ken Livingstone

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

— Anais Nin

Spirituality is not about becoming special - it is about becoming one with everything.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I think religion should be treated with ridicule, hatred, and contempt, and I claim that right.

— Christopher Hitchens

A man's faith governs the totality of his life, or else his professed faith is not his real faith.

— R.J. Rushdoony

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

— Rick Warren

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

— Huston Smith

Do not, I beg you, look for anything behind phenomena. They are themselves their own lesson.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe