Religion Quotes · Page 692

The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.

— Ulrich Beck

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

— David Cassidy

I have great admiration of the spirit of the people of New Orleans. They love life and stay positive.

— Morten Andersen

“No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.”

— W. Somerset Maugham

All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.

— Rudyard Kipling

I was emotionally and spiritually dried up, so I was just searching for God.

— Scott Stapp

All Religions are vehicles and a path to God's Divine Presence.

— Bayazid Bastami

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a…

— Joseph Addison

Reverence for life brings us into a spiritual relation with the world which is independent of all knowledge of the universe.

— Albert Schweitzer

Doubtless the world is wicked enough; but it will not be improved by the extension of a spirit which self-righteously sees more…

— J. G. Holland

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

— Brian Eno

“Terrorism is not an ideology of any religion; it is a business policy of weapon-selling countries like America,israel and france.”

— Mohammed Zaki Ansari

While a little faith may bring your souls to heaven, a lot of faith--clinging to God despite your circumstances--will bring heaven to…

— Skip Heitzig

I call for effort, courage, sacrifice, devotion. Granting the love of freedom, all of these are possible. And the love of freedom…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

— Tom T. Hall

We have often asserted, and we affirm it yet again, that no fact in history is better attested than the resurrection of…

— Charles Spurgeon

“It has been asserted that our century is characterized by an entirely new phenomenon: the appearance of people incapable of relating to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

I am convinced that everything that is worth while in the world has been accomplished by the free, inquiring, critical spirit, and…

— Sinclair Lewis

You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A quest for knowledge is not a war with faith; spirituality is not usually an infelicitous amalgam of superstition and philistinism; and…

— Conrad Black

“There is something worse than holding our silence while the lost of this world run headlong into hell: the crime of preaching…

— Paul Washer

until it had been clearly explained that men were always and always partly wrong in all their ideas, life would be full…

— Dorothy Richardson

And when they [American soldiers] came, they found fit comrades for their courage and their devotion. ... Joining hands with these, the…

— Woodrow Wilson

God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken.

— Mahatma Gandhi

All religions must be tolerated for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

— Anonymous

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

When you legislate personal belief, you're in violation of freedom of religion.

— John Irving

The courts are using the First Amendment to attack religion, when they should be using it to protect religion.

— Ernest Istook

“Part of most major religions is a clause stating that other religions are wrong.”

— Dan Zarrella

Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion.

— Richard John Neuhaus

“Teachable spirit makes you crave for more wisdom and knowledge.”

— Euginia Herlihy

You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing.

— Rocky Colavito

Without faith, without belief in something, what are we?

— Clive Owen

“In every religion; a true love is the love for the God, in mine it is for you.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

— John Wesley

Put these words on your head and let them percolate We need to separate church and state.

— Childish Gambino

“If religion is what gives you hope and purpose, I believe in comedy.”

— Cooper Bratten

We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual.

— George Will

“We’re not blind in spirit, Father. We’re just human beings in a changing world”. Il gattopardo”

— Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa