Religious Quotes · Page 63

Noah took much ridicule building his great arc, but after 40 days and 40 nights he was looking pretty smart.

— Garth Brooks

In the fury of the moment/ I can see the Master's hand In every leaf that trembles, in/ every grain of sand.

— Bob Dylan

Modern religious teaching have little or nothing to say about the place of prudence in life or in the hierarchy of virtues.

— Josef Pieper

Past boldness is no assurance of future boldness. Boldness demands continual reliance on God's spirit.

— Andy Stanley

“All religions are man-made; God has not yet revealed himself beyond doubt to anybody.”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what's right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that…

— Waylon Jennings

My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in…

— Ibn Ata Allah

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

— Oswald Chambers

When we have sold our identity to the judges of this world, we are bound to become restless, because of a growing…

— Henri Nouwen

“Our religious institutions are not giving very many men access to credible encounters with the holy or even with their own wholeness.…

— Richard Rohr

The young people who join extremist groups are clearly suffering from massive deficiencies in religious knowledge and are often politically gullible (when…

— Tariq Ramadan

As a personal matter I don't give a damn where mosques, churches, temples or other religious shrines and symbols are built as…

— Bob Higgins

Leaving religious texts open too interpretation is the downfall of religion itself. If it is truly the word of God then there…

— Stephen Colbert

I think we recognize as Americans there are certain things that are just primary to the freedoms and liberties that we enjoy…

— Ann Romney

Whether you're an opera singer, a legislator or customer service operator, there is a way that we can find common ground with…

— Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick

I've always paid attention to religion because I grew up in a religious background, but I've never felt a part of any…

— Brad Pitt

I wouldn't say that religion has promoted the social progress of mankind. I say that it has been a detriment to the…

— Culbert Olson

I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to…

— Vaughn J Featherstone

I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant,…

— Woody Allen

The danger, then, is that materialism is not only shaping how we live but the way we think as well. It influences…

— Robert Wuthnow

One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores…

— Jack Vance

It is true that traditional Christianity is losing some of its appeal among Americans, but that is a religious, not political, matter.…

— Jon Meacham

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form…

— Abraham Kuyper

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

— Richard Rodriguez

Everybody's talking about ministers, sinisters, banisters, and canisters, bishops, fishops, rabbis, and popeyes, bye-bye, bye-byes.

— John Lennon

God has more for you in your future than you could ever dream of in your present and he's already seen you…

— Rod Parsley

“included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.”

— Karen Armstrong

I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

— Anonymous

Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and…

— Clement of Alexandria

“These hands are unlike any other strong but gentle caring loving and understanding”

— April Nichole

People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love…

— Bill Nye

I am appalled by the great injustice being perpetrated by those Jewish organizations that engage in anti-Christian bigotry.

— Daniel Lapin

Preach Christ or nothing: don't dispute or discuss except with your eye on the cross.

— Charles Spurgeon

You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of…

— Ed Harris

Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned

— Mark Twain

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

— Bertrand Russell

The religious instinct will never be replaced by law or even philanthropy.

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

How utterly terrible is the current idea that Christians can serve God at their own convenience.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer