Religion Quotes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36
He can't go five minutes without quoting scripture. It's like biblical Tourettes.
If we fail to understand the biblical story of Jesus, we will compromise our prophetic interpretations of the end-times. And that's exactly what we've done.
I believe if I Piss God off one more time. I'll be eligible to win a free Bible
But Jesus looked at them and said, "With men, it is impossible. But not with God. With God, all things are possible.
If, as Heraclitus suggests, god, like an oracle, neither "declares nor hides, but sets forth by signs, " then clearly I had better be scrying the signs.
9/11 forced us to build another identity, to look deep and say who are we and what do we believe and is killing in the name of Islam part of that religion?No. No. No.
It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance.
When you choose a Guru you become a follower. When your Guru chooses you, you become a disciple
The problem with the prosperity gospel is that it makes prosperity the Gospel. God's word is flawless, however if your interpretation of the word is wrong, your application will be wrong also.
When indeed it is in God we live, and move, and have our being. We cannot draw a breath without his help.
The true seekers pursued their goal so single-mindedly, they felt no urge to tamper with the faith of others
Religious devotion is for the individual. Character is for all. There is no loss if there is no devotion. Everything is lost if there is no character.
The Prophet's character was termed tremendous because his concern was for God alone.
It is easy for those who conflate religion with government to interpret any criticism of government or policy as an 'attack' on their 'faith'.
What was the purpose, then, of everything they taught in here? If it couldn't prevent men from acting like monsters?
The more fundamentalist a person, the more immoral and inhuman he is.
In any event, we must remember that it's not the blinded wrongdoers who are primarily responsible for the triumph of evil in the world, but the spiritually sighted servants of the good.
If your religion requires, as an article of faith, to hate people of other religions and faiths, you and your ism are screwed up, mate.
...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.
Human beings feel an obligation to have a definate opinion on issues they can never truly know. They need to learn to be satisfied with "I don't know".
Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind, and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded pro
Doing good for the sake of a heavenly reward is not an act of good, but a business transaction.
Where religion clashes with science is that religion makes smart people do stupid things.
Atheism is not against god, it is against the religious establishment who use god they have never seen or heard from to establish their influence over the minds of men.
If you are a pastor there is no way you can lose faith without losing face, you are considered the devil incarnate by your former congregation
The origin and the operation of the universe do not require any violations of the laws of physics.
Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.
The Bolsheviks killed their own most loyal supporters at Kronstadt in 1921, because they failed to understand that the revolution no longer required revolutionaries, but obedient servants.
What sort of a god are you, my Lord? Your punishments seem barbaric to me. Either that or we are more god-like and you’re merely human-like.
I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.
I am, perhaps, too intellectual, too modern, for my own comfort! How lovely it would be to sink into the warm comfort of established religion.
If you fall from a plane onto a river, and survived, it is luck, but if you fall from a plane onto asphalt ground, and survived, then that is a miracle.
I am not an atheist. I simply believe in a god different from yours
God doesn't send atheists to Hell -- there's no room with all the Christians down there.
An educated man believing in a this-that vile sky-god rewarding him-her, but punishing your enemies with hell and fire, is uneducated.
It is a challenge to love someone who does not see the divine as you do, and much harder still to date someone who considers your spirituality a design flaw in an otherwise worthwhile human being.
The world is so exquisite, with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little goodevidence.