Religious Life Quotes

59 quotes by 48 authors

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of… — Karen Armstrong
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can… — Karen Armstrong
The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate nurture. I defended myself against… — Teresa of Avila
For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science… — Ellen Swallow Richards
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be… — Alan Watts
Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls… — Mother Teresa
While both denominations maintain missions in Asia and Africa in order to win new followers for their doctrine- an activity which can boast but very… — Adolf Hitler
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really… — Adolf Hitler
Business is religion, and religion is business. The man who does not make a business of his religion has a religious life of no force,… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life… — Unknown Author
The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life. — Abraham Cahan
The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none… — Randolph Bourne
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life… — Alvin Plantinga
Self-absorption is always a temptation to young people, and if their religion is of a sort to add to this self-absorption, I feel that it… — Hannah Whitall Smith
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end… — Edith Stein
Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over… — Walter Rauschenbusch
In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed. — Alan Wolfe
Habit must play a larger place in our religious life. We worship when we feel like it, we pray when we feel like it. We… — Ralph Washington Sockman
If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be… — Paramahansa Yogananda
We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there… — Roger Mahony

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