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Religious Quotes by Jonathan Sacks
- The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed…
- The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.
- I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.
- Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the…
- I see in the rising crescendo of ethnic tensions, civilization clashes and the use of religious justification for acts of terror, a clear and present…
- The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to…
- Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about the tenor of…
- As the political leaders of Europe meet to save the euro and European Union, so should religious leaders.
- The evidence shows that religious people - defined by regular attendance at a place of worship - actually do make better neighbors.
- Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses,…
- Dreams are where we visit the many lands and landscapes of human possibility and discover the one where we feel at home. The great religious…
- Europe today is the most secular region in the world. Europe is the only region in the world experiencing population decline. Wherever you turn today…
- In her religious role, the Queen is head of the Church of England, but in her civic role she cares for all her subjects, and…
More Religious Quotes
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. — Isaac Asimov
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist,… — Chinua Achebe
- God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. — Saint Augustine
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I… — Teresa of Avila