Religious Quotes · Page 119

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.

— Sinclair B. Ferguson

If the gospel of Jesus Christ can be proclaimed as a theology of self-esteem, imagine the health this could generate in society!

— Robert H. Schuller

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make…

— Fulton J. Sheen

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a…

— Mark Twain

I love the idea of engaging religious sentiment and how that vocabulary has evolved over time.

— Kehinde Wiley

Friendship is so much healthier than other crutches -alcohol or TV or religious fanaticism. One healthy crutch shouldn't be against the rules.

— Tim Sandlin

The eyes of our souls only then begin to see when our bodily eyes are closing.

— William Law

One hundred religious persons knit into a unity by careful organizations do not constitute a church any more than eleven dead men…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense…

— Virginia Postrel

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious…

— Alcee Hastings

From the Muslims I learned from the extraordinary pluralism of the Koran, the fact that the Koran endorses every single one of…

— Karen Armstrong

The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary…

— Adolf Hitler

I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This…

— Mandy Moore

While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle…

— Paul Harris

I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my…

— Ricky Gervais

I discovered several never-failing signs by which one might know when a man wished to take another wife. He would suddenly 'awaken…

— T. B. H. Stenhouse

Sit not down without assurance. Get alone, and bring thy heart to the bar of trial; force it to answer the interrogatories…

— Richard Baxter

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief…

— Mario Cuomo

The most rapid way to change a root thought, or sponsoring idea, is to reverse the thought-word-deed process. Do the deed that…

— Neale Donald Walsch

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of "us" and "them" creates a false…

— Marc Bekoff

There is no longer a Christian mind ... the modern Christian has succumbed to secularization. He accepts religion - its morality, its…

— Harry Blamires

Had there been a Lunatic Asylum in the suburbs of Jerusalem, Jesus Christ would infallibly have been shut up in it at…

— Havelock Ellis

Well, years and years ago, I started to ask myself three very simple questions, which dominated my life for many years. One…

— Dee Hock

Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the religious pest is the most abominable.

— Johann Most

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

— Louis de Bernieres

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about…

— Martin Luther

It is better to preach five words of God’s Word than five million words of man’s wisdom.

— Charles Spurgeon

A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity.

— Rene Dubos

Religious doctrines do not and clearly cannot be adopted as the criminal code of a state.

— Clarence Darrow

“A religious system is to be judged by its idea of God, for it is upon this that its whole structure rests.”

— John Daniel

I'm not a practice religion freak. I didn't grow up in a religious family, but I have a faith.

— Robin Wright

I came from a religious, homeschooled background; I had conventional views across the board.

— Ben Domenech

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.

— Thomas Jefferson

To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer…

— Samuel Johnson

Education was in danger from the source that always hampered it—religious fanaticism.

— Clarence Darrow

“Your greatest weapon is your MIND! Lock and load it with the greatest ammunition; EDUCATION. And protect it with your best defense;…

— Marck E. Estemil

We all have in our hearts some areas of unbelief. Let us say to the Lord: I believe! Help my unbelief.

— Pope Francis

The secularization of Western culture was accompanied by the elevation of art to the position of a substitute religion to replace Christianity.

— Leland Ryken

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

— Mark Twain