Religious Quotes

The supreme religious challenge is to see God’s image in one who is not in our image.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind.

There's bad apples in whatever way you want to group people - doesn't matter if it's religious, political or social. The big mistake is generalizing.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

God afflicts us because he loves us; and it is very pleasing to him, when in our afflictions he sees us abandon ourselves to his paternal care.

Wisdom was a teapot, pouring from above. Desolation angels, served it up with love.

For nearly two hundred years, our nation has derived its strength from the diversity of its people and of their beliefs. That strength has been greatly enhanced by [the Islamic] religious heritage.

If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations.

Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don't have to prove that scientifically. It's a fact.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Political dictatorship and social hopelessness create the desperation that fuels religious extremism.

I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist.

If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.

The solution for mankind is of a spiritual nature. It is not a political or religious solution. It's the ability to love each other. That's the only solution I see.

We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.

The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

The days of the Cross are counted. We must deliver the German nation from the pernicious influence of Christianity.

In the name of religion many great and fine deeds have been performed. In the name of religion also, thousands and millions have been killed, and every possible crime has been committed.

When you see the storm coming, if you seek safety in that firm refuge which is Mary, there will be no danger of your wavering or going down.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

I believe it is a religious duty to get all the money you can, fairly and honestly; to keep all you can, and to give away all you can.

If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be — a Christian.

It is time that we admitted that faith is nothing more than the license religious people give one another to keep believing when reasons fail.

A church without the broken is a broken church.

I Am More Spiritual Than Religious; Besides I Am Not A Fanatic

God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.

O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

The reason why Christ is unknown today is because His Mother is unknown.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my country.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky.

Two things make a relationship providential: when we hear from God through someone and when we see God in someone.

The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

The environmental crisis has deep spiritual, philosophical, and religious roots and causes. It is not merely the result of bad engineering.

The big problem is not whether the Bible is true. The big problem is whether it is true in you.

Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me.

Religion is removed from the public realm, and the public realm is removed from the affairs of religion. However, this is not neutrality. Implicitly, it supports secularism.