Religious Quotes

There is something almost cruel about the Christian's being placed in a world which in every way wants to pressure him to do the opposite of what God bids him to do.

I am not a believer in religious rituals. I was brought up in the Arya Samaj environment which taught us to shun rituals. Puja, of course, but simple, elegant and brief.

Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.

Feast, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness.

This human world of ours would be inconceivable without the practical existence of a religious belief.

The Founders never intended to separate Christianity from government, only to keep a single denomination from running the nation.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

If I am right, then (religious fundamentalists) will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. If they are right, then they will not go to Heaven, because they are hypocrites.

Cease to sin, because you will not meet Allah with anything [as valuable] as few sins.

You will never be an inwardly religious and devout man unless you pass over in silence the shortcomings of your fellow men, and diligently examine your own weaknesses.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

The good Lord didn't create anything without a purpose, but the fly comes close.

The infallible test of spiritual integrity, Jesus says, is your private prayer life.

And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.

It is time for the government of China to stop holding innocent religious figures in captivity merely for peacefully protesting China's occupation of Tibet.

We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein.

Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

Satan, the Hinderer, may build a barrier about us, but he can never roof us in, so that we cannot look up.

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development.

I am perplexed at the stupidity of the ordinary religious being. In the most practical of all matters he will talk and speculate and try to feel, but he will not set himself to do.

What shall we do with...the Jews?...set fire to their synagogues or schools and bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

This story is true. Of course, there are many lies therein and most of it did not happen, but it's all true. In that sense it is deeply religious, perhaps even biblical.

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare.

Do not say that every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to dying. Every day you spend on this earth is a day closer to finally living.

When I write my music I see all the rivers flowing... sensual, spiritual, religious, animal, intellectual.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

The God of the Old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction.

Religious people are atheists about all other gods, atheists only take it one god further.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.

As it is not possible to walk without feet or fly without wings, so it is impossible to attain the Kingdom of Heaven without the fulfillment of the commandments.

The most important thing is to know how to awaken in the still undeveloped masses an intelligent attitude towards religious questions and an intelligent criticism of religions.

But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; Casting a dim religious light.

Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.

The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.

The First Amendment has erected a wall between church and state. That wall must be kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach.

I was dead for millions of years before I was born and it never inconvenienced me a bit.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

Actions don't only speak louder than words; actions should be used to interpret words.

People on death row, the treatment of animals, women's right to choose. So much in America is based on religious fundamentalist Christianity. Grow up! This is the modern world!

[The United States is] founded on the principles of Christianity

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.