Religious Quotes · Page 81

Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.

— Sam Harris

"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the…

— Theophan the Recluse

“Religious ideas, supposedly private matters between man and god, are in practice always political ideas.”

— Christopher Hitchens

There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.

— Mark Durie

God doesn't break things so He can fix them; He fixes broken things so He can use them.

— Bob Goff

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

— Anonymous

We cannot and must not sit back and let the anti-biblical world system determine the prevailing values of our day.

— Bill Bright

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of…

— Deepak Chopra

The first amendment makes it clear that we are free to practice religion without government interference. The Constitution also establishes the separation…

— Roxane Gay

I believe that for lots of churches and religious institutions, their main focus on the development of faith among parishioners needs to…

— Geoffrey Canada

Capitalism is of this material world; it provides us with the means to live; it empowers us within the known world of…

— Stephen Young

Divine love is perfect peace and joy, it is a freedom from all disquiet, it is all content and happiness; and makes…

— William Law

Why did I adopt kids? I dunno. Let me look at my family: religious weirdo, gun nut, biker, boozer, dead tooth, too…

— Dana Gould

One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of…

— Bell Hooks

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion…

— Walter Koenig

Whether religious or racial, anti-Semitism is always repugnant, one of the most destructive manifestations of human stupidity and evil. What is profoundly…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

America's founding fathers did not intend to take religion out of education. Many of the nation's greatest universities were founded by evangelists…

— Billy Graham

Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your…

— Charles Stanley

Many poets are not poets for the same reason that many religious men are not saints: they never succeed in being themselves.…

— Thomas Merton

I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now…

— Yann Martel

An environmentalist can oppose factory farming because it's reckless stewardship. A conservative can oppose factory farming because it is destructive to small…

— Matthew Scully

Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends…

— Lee Smith

“I implore the atheist not to judge the religious and I implore the religious to not find fault with the atheist. Be…

— C. JoyBell C

I do pray. I pray to something...up there. I have a God sense. It's not religious so much as superstitious. It's part…

— Jack Nicholson

the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

— Diane Ackerman

Make your god transparent to the transcendent, and it doesn't matter what his name is.

— Joseph Campbell

Like the wind, Grace finds us wherever we are and won't leave us however we were found.

— Ann Voskamp

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

— Dalai Lama

I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

— Tim Crane

Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

— Sukhwinder Singh

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment…

— James Montgomery Boice

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

— George Carlin

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.

— Billy Sunday

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

— Ibn Taymiyyah

In every historical period, the religious groups that grow most rapidly are those that set believers at odds with the surrounding culture.

— Nancy Pearcey

Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.

— Jon Ronson

If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.

— Ruhollah Khomeini

It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.

— Jean Cocteau

Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.

— Chris Lilley