Religious Quotes · Page 83

Religious conservatives still lack a theology of direct political action.

— Ralph E. Reed, Jr

From the Cross, Christ teaches us to love even those who do not love us.

— Pope Francis

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to…

— Nat Hentoff

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

— Hilary of Poitiers

As I make goals for this year... Jesus, let your thoughts become my thoughts and bend my will to Your will.

— Lysa TerKeurst

High ethics and religious principles form the basis for success and happiness in every area of life.

— John Templeton

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

— Mark Twain

Dear God, I woke up, I am healthy, I am alive, thank you. I apologize for all my complaining. I'm truly grateful…

— Jesse Joseph

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective…

— Thomas Jefferson

I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there…

— Mark Haddon

There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk…

— Joel Osteen

To cultivate the intellect is therefore a religious duty; and when this truth is fairly recognized by men, the religion which teaches…

— William Winwood Reade

The roots of India's soft power run deep. India's is a civilization that, over millennia, has offered refuge and, more importantly, religious…

— Shashi Tharoor

Many school administrators are so cautious that they have erroneously erased all traces of religion. Some have run roughshod over teachers. Others…

— Mathew Staver

In France, it's really different the way you live. It's a non-religious country. The public space is not religious; religion is a…

— Michel Hazanavicius

The rise of community among cultures and religious traditions makes possible what we can call 'interspirituality': the assimilation of insights, values, and…

— Wayne Teasdale

Both Kant and Fichte thought of traditions of revealed religion as ways of symbolically (that is, with aesthetic emotional power) thinking about…

— Allen W. Wood

Many friends have expressed concern that a religious fanatic will try to kill me when I go to Africa. After all, I’ll…

— Waris Dirie

“BLACK AND WHITE I was born into A religion of Light, But with so many other Religions and Philosophies, How do I…

— Suzy Kassem

Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

The time for letting the Christian bashing go on essentially unchallenged has come to an end... There is a great need for…

— D. James Kennedy

Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and…

— Gautama Buddha

And the reason is found in the first lie - the lie which you hold as the truth about God - that…

— Neale Donald Walsch

I still remember how upset I was in the aftermath of President Obama's election, where people in Republican leadership didn't say that,…

— Cory Booker

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

— Phyllis Grissim-Theroux

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

“the level of tolerance for religious differences is much greater than the politically correct crowd would have us believe.”

— Ben Carson

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

— Mahatma Gandhi

For [Karl] Marx it is socialist society which realizes "concretely" the religious principles of equality, brotherly love, and freedom.

— Erich Fromm

“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...”

— J.G. Ballard

We must do worldly jobs, but if we do them with sanctified minds, they become offerings to God.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

— George Eliot

“It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conversative shell, unless he doesn't feel discomfort there.”

— Tarif Naaz

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

— Andy Stanley

Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis.

— James A. Michener

Christianity is not a message which has to be believed, but an experience of faith that becomes a message.

— Edward Schillebeeckx

Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions.

— Jean-Pierre Raffarin

America's commitment to religious freedom and tolerance should not be conditional.

— Mark McKinnon

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a…

— Thomas A. Edison

“I don't mean to mock the gods, but Freyja seems to me a bitch. - Hjalti Skjeggjason”

— Robert Ferguson