Religion Quote by Jim Wallis Download Open image ““Religion is often used as a sword to divide, rather than as a balm to heal.”” — Jim Wallis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Religion
“Religion is like a knife. If you use it the wrong way you can cut yourself.” — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Any religion with a sword is not a religion; it is merely an army of assassins! A real man of God carries only flowers… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“Religion is like a knife; in the hands of a surgeon, it heals, but in the hands of a murderer, it kills.” — Luke Gracias Copy Share Image
“Religion is what an individual does with his solitariness.” — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Religion really means to rejoin that which seems to be separate.” — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
“Many of us use religion as a guise to keep others at arms length.” — Joni Madraiwiwi Copy Share Image
“Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people.” — Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney Copy Share Image
“at best, religion generates comforting noises to mask the fact that someone is starving to death, or is dying of cholera, or has had… — P.Z. Myers Copy Share Image
“Religion is like an art gallery. One painting will speak to you more than another, and there's no need to explain or defend your… — Michael Muhammad Knight Copy Share Image
If you are asking the wrong question, it doesn't matter how good the answer is, you aren't going to get where you want to… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Spirituality becomes a commodity to be bought and sold. So spirituality has to be disciplined by social justice. — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Faith can cut in so many ways. If you're penitent and not triumphal, it can move us to repentance and accountability and help us reach for something higher than ourselves. That can be a powerful thing, a thing that moves us beyond politics as usual, like Martin Luther King did. But when it's designed to certify our righteousness - that… — Jim Wallis Copy Share
More than just a moral issue, hope is a spiritual and even religious choice. Hope is not a feeling; it is a decision. And the decision for hope is based on what you believe at the deepest levels - what your most basic convictions are about the world and what the future holds - all based on your faith. You… — Jim Wallis Copy Share
Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
To dig our heels in and say no to a present madness is a good thing, but to walk a new path and say… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
The kingdom of God, which Jesus came to inaugurate, is meant to create an alternate reality in this world, and ultimately to transform the… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“What I have a problem with is not so much religion or god, but faith. When you say you believe something in your heart and therefore you can act on it, you have completely justified the 9/11 bombers. You have justified Charlie Manson. If it's true for you, why isn't it true for them? Why are you different? If you… — Penn Jillette Copy Share
The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an evidence, not of the gloom and narrowness of a religion,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Personal Style comes from within. It's when the woman, her individuality and spirit come through. She uses clothes to express who she is and… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the past, and its stirring recollections come… — Bayard Taylor Copy Share Image
