Religion Quotes

Just as the Torah and Bible teach concern for those in distress, the Koran instructs all Muslims to make caring for widows, orphans, and refugees a priority.

this is her body this is her blood

Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations.

An understanding of Jesus is not a mere matter of intelligence. He has to be accepted by faith.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be.

The main thing for inner contentment is to be in a state of grace. And there is an artistic state of grace, for art is a kind of religion.

More people have died in the name of religion than have ever died of cancer. And we try to cure cancer... What makes us take up arms against those who pray to the same God with different words?

For me, the existence of nonexistence of God is a nonissue.

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor.

One century's saint is the next century's heretic ... and one century's heretic is the next century's saint. It is as well to think long and calmly before affixing either name to any man.

No one is as murderously 'Islamophobic' as Islamists are.

Science is not about making predictions or performing experiments. Science is about explaining.

Proof' is the hallmark of religion.

Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

The heart of their [Walsingham Witnesses] religion seemed to lie in disproving the religion of others.

Even the juncture in history and the zeitgeist we live in is something we choose, setting the scene for the spiritual fodder we need to grow and achieve deeper elevation of our souls.

To know God, know your heart (conscience). After you know your heart, you will learn to see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with Truth in them.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

The hope is indeed that some will experience and believe: The purpose of a number of spiritual gurus is to demonstrate to God-fearing men faux spirituality.

Without God, reality is madness. Reason will tell you so. You either madly trust in God, or you trust in a world gone mad without him.

Sometimes people who adamantly assert an opinion or view don't even hold it themselves.

Groups create supernatural beings not to explain the universe but to order their societies.

You have to choose your future regrets.

A major gap between many of the denominations stems from how people define some of the most basic terms, such as 'religion' itself.

I was surprised. I'd always associated belief in heaven with, frankly, a kind of intellectual disengagement. But Gus wasn't dumb.

Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

I've never thought there was anything I could hope to get by praying for it.

It is better to doubt that a concept is stupidly flying under your head than profoundly flying over your head.

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

We may not understand the pathways God lays out before us. We may not even like walking the journey. But even in failure, we can trust that He’ll do more than we expect.

Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Banks are the temples of America. This is a holy war. Our economy is our religion.

A mature heart for Christ would much rather spend its time praising him than condemning his fanatics.

Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Whatever thing a man gets quickly enraged about is his idol, and whatever thing he makes his idol becomes his religion.

Religion is tied to the deepest feelings people have. The love that arises from that stewing pot is the sweetest and strongest, but the hate is the hottest, and the anger is the most violent.

You priests. You're all the same. You think fasting helps you think about God, when anyone who can cook would tell you that fasting just makes you think about food.

One of the Christian's biggest fears is appearing 'too Christian'. God forbid, because that's often characterized as god-awful! We want to be one, but without being 'one of them'.

If I replace the word God with the word nature, I am far more at ease with the whole religious enterprise.

He didn't like religion, hadn't liked it for years, but he adored churches, loved them like old scientific instruments whose time is long past but are nevertheless fascinating and strange.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

But my lazy lack of faith, my in-vogue atheism, has taken away the safety net hanging beneath our children's lives.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.