Religious Quotes · Page 116

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

— Mahatma Gandhi

We will allow private and religious groups to compete to provide services in every federal, state and local social program.

— George W. Bush

Jesus's teaching consistently attracted the irreligious while offending the Bible-believing , religious people of his day.

— Timothy Keller

George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.

— Bob Hawke

Many people have overcome that home situation simply by having at least one caring adult, whether a teacher, mentor or religious leader.

— James Redford

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan

The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.

— Jay Sekulow

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a…

— Will Herberg

My friend Ronald Gottesman says...that the cause of all our trouble is the belief in an essential, pure identity: religious, ethnic, historical,…

— Chris Abani

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you…

— John Shelby Spong

Asking Hollywood to begin to show some restraint and balance in its antireligious fury is not the same as suggesting that the…

— Michael Medved

Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste…

— Lionel Trilling

Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both…

— Hunter S. Thompson

The image a society evolves of the relationship between the living and the dead is, in the final analysis, an attempt, on…

— Claude Levi-Strauss

If we can put the names of our faiths aside for the moment and look at principles, we fill find a common…

— Louis Farrakhan

If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then…

— Albert Einstein

Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does…

— David Blankenhorn

We are all brothers and sisters under the skin and above it . . . it's super important that we stop lobbing…

— Roger Waters

Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was…

— Thomas Jefferson

Even if man's hunger and thirst and his sexual strivings are completely satisfied, 'he' is not satisfied. In contrast to the animal…

— Erich Fromm

“One sip of this wine and you will go mad with drunkenness. You will drop your masks and tear your clothes —…

— Kamand Kojouri

The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the…

— Corinne Heline

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts…

— Kofi Annan

At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.

— Richard Paul Evans

“Absent a sense of the preciousness of one's own life, why respect the life of anyone else?”

— Kentetsu Takamori

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

— Anthony Jeselnik

When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

— Joyce Meyer

As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.

— Jonathan Sacks

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few…

— Moustapha Akkad

We Hindus have a long-recognised tradition of being religious liberals by nature.

— Subramanian Swamy

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

— Mark Twain

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

— J. C. Ryle

Just know this, that God is faithful, even when you don't have faith yourself.

— Mike Herrera

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

— Wole Soyinka

I got religion in the airport, my Lord. They caught me waiting on my baggage when I was bored.

— Neil Young

Christians and religious individuals are quickly demonized and not tolerated by the dogmatic left if their views differ.

— Mercedes Schlapp

'For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not disaster, to give…

— Andrew Guzaldo

Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."

— Mary C. Neal

Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.

— Northrop Frye