Religion Quotes · Page 673

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

— Erwin W. Lutzer

“Christ’s resurrection is the forerunner of our own, and our resurrection is the forerunner of the earth’s.”

— Randy Alcorn

Happy is the spirit that attains to the perfect formlessness at the time of prayer.

— Evagrius Ponticus

Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

— Lord Byron

If religion were a thing that money could buy, the rich would live and the poor would die.

— Peter Paul And Mary

“In his opinion, faith was generally for people who were bad at math.”

— James S.A. Corey

I obviously swear by yoga for staying mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually balanced.

— Emily Carpenter

“Of course I am not religious—I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so”

— Philip Warren Anderson

By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.

— Ralph Nader

“Ah, it is hard to find this track of divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum…

— Hermann Hesse

For God so loved the world, that whosoever believes in him will, from that point on, be considered weired by the rest…

— Mike Yaconelli

Although my family attended the same church as everyone in our town, our religion was not the same. I could stand with…

— Tara Westover

The hardest part of a missionary career is to maintain regular, prayerful Bible study. Satan will always find you something to do,…

— Hudson Taylor

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

— Thomas Jefferson

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

— Segolene Royal

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus…

— George Whitefield

“Jerome does not condemn singing absolutely, but he corrects those who sing theatrically, or who sing not in order to arouse devotion…

— Michael S. Horton

“This is the lesson history told me: when a religion gets so mired in bureaucracy that compassion takes second place to the…

— Mercedes Lackey

We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's…

— Pope Benedict XVI

We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is…

— Michael Polanyi

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than…

— Anita Roddick

Jesus Tempted in the Wilderness is Adophe Monod at his best. It is a masterpiece, bringing together profound comfort, realistic understanding, practical…

— Joel Beeke

“Living in filth was regarded by great numbers of holy men, who set an example to the Church and to society, as…

— Andrew Dickson White

“...the church lives in a regime of ecclesial authoritarian security and the military elites live in a regime of national authoritarian security.…

— Mev Puleo

“Hope is that great spirit that grant us courage to stay determined.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.

— Oliver Tambo

The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ.

— Swami Vivekananda

For mysterious things of faith, rely on the proponent, Heaven's authority.

— John Dryden

“Nanak, the whole world is in distress. He, who believes in the Name, becomes victorious.”

— Guru Nanak

Had the Holy Spirit not been with Jesus, He would have sinned

— Benny Hinn

I wasn't looking for religion; I was looking for a world view.

— John Eldredge

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception.

— Max Anders

You can't be at the same time a spiritual master and someone who is always angry. It doesn't work.

— Matthieu Ricard

Many people think they have religion when they are troubled with dyspepsia.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

For there are strong grounds for thinking that, in the evolution of thought, magic has preceded religion.

— James G. Frazer

One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith.

— Susan Sontag

Yes I am very spiritual cos I believe that in everything I do, I have to put God first,

— Nadia Buari

I went to religious schools. I wasn't that enthusiastic, by and large, but it sunk in.

— Tim Rice

Revealed religion first informed thy sight, and reason saw not till faith sprung to light.

— John Dryden

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

— Edmund Burke