Religious Quotes

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

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

The demand that Islam makes of women is to not attract attention to yourself, and if you are in a secular society, that attire does exactly that, and it is a political symbol, no longer religious.

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.

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

Secularism denounces supernaturalism and promotes a nonreligious or antireligious basis of social organization and morality.

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.

Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.

Let us run to Mary, and, as her little children, cast ourselves into her arms with a perfect confidence.

I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.

The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

They all err - Muslims, Christians, Jews and Magians. There are two kinds of humans - the intelligent, who have no religion, and the religious, who have no intellect.

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause.

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

A common religion is not possible for India, but a recognition of a common basis for all religions, and the growth of a liberal, tolerant spirit in religious matters, are possible.

There are no atheists in foxholes" isn't an argument against atheism, it's an argument against foxholes.

I did not read the Bible today. I am not very good at being religious and don't really feel too bad about not being too good. I do wish that I loved God and His creatures more.

Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing.

I go to church strapped with a 45 glock.

For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

Outside of the will of god, there is nothing I want. And in the will of god there is nothing I fear.

I love God, and when you get to know Him, you find He's a Livin' Doll.

We are called not simply to communicate the gospel to nonbelievers; we must also intentionally celebrate the gospel before them.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.

If the state - and within the state, the judiciary particularly - harasses and undermines the Church , in any society the state undoes itself.

To us, waiting is wasting. To God waiting is working.

I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.

The Constitution does not require complete separation of church and state; it affirmatively mandates accommodation, not merely tolerance, of all religions, and forbids hostility toward any.

If you want to give the devil a nervous breakdown, just get up every day and see how much good you can do.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

The secret to healthy conflict resolution isn't taking a 'you against me' stance. The secret is realizing it's 'us against Satan.' He's the real enemy.

Examine the religious principles which have, in fact, prevailed in the world. You will scarcely be persuaded that they are other than sick men's dreams.

Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum.

Can you worship a God who isn't obligated to explain His actions to you? Could it be your arrogance that makes you think God owes you an explanation?

Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Always have the fear of God in your heart, and remember that God is always with you, everywhere, whether you are walking or sitting.

We are at fault for not slaying the Jews.

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

No citizen enjoys genuine freedom of religious conviction until the state is indifferent to every form of religious outlook from Atheism to Zoroastrianism.

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

"Love covers a multitude of sins," (I Pet. 4:8). That is, for love towards one's neighbor, God forgives the sins of the one who loves.