Religious Quotes

A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.

I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being.

With the power of soul, anything is possible.

We must live a holy life if we want to pray.

When there is no such thing as religious culture and moral education, serious social problems such as drug addiction and racism fill the gap.

Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley, but to believe or not believe in God is not important at all.

True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

All money represents theft… To steal from the rich is a sacred and religious act. While looting, a man to his own self is true.

If you really want to understand a man, don't just listen to what he says but watch what he does.

Oh, God, to know you is life. To serve You is freedom. To praise you is the soul's joy and delight. Guard me with the power of Your grace here and in all places. Now and at all times, forever. Amen.

I make fun of people who are religious, because they're fundamentally weak.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis.

We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.

We need to replace the lies of the enemy with the truth of God; to do so we need to know the truth of God.

You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

Barbarity, caprice; these qualities, however nominally disguised, we may universally observe from the ruling character of the deity in all regular religions.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

I could be religious, if they sang the hymns to disco.

I'm getting old, don't wear underwear, and I don't go to church.

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

The money complex is the demonic, and the demonic is God's ape; the money complex is therefore the heir to and substitute for the religious complex, an attempt to find God in things.

When the soul drifts uncertainly between life and the dream, between the mind's disorder and the return to cool reflection, it is in religious thought that we should seek consolation.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.

When we are in a situation where Jesus is all we have, we soon discover He is all we really need.

Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

The religions of the world are luminous in their individuality, and they have valuable social and soulmaking functions. Surely someday we will quit killing each other over their different strategies.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

If God himself was not willing to use coercion to force man to accept certain religious views, man, uninspired and liable to error, ought not to use the means that Jehovah would not employ.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.

Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.

Christian bashing is alive and well on college and university campuses also. In fact, it's ever more direct and overt because Christianity is not 'politically correct.' Never has been. Never will be.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

The sole purpose and effect of it is to exclude persecution and to secure the important right of religious liberty.

Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.

I used to think you had to be special for God to use you, but now I know you simply need to say yes.

Straight through the heart of them righteous uprights, drop kick me Jesus through the goal posts of life.

The main characteristic which is the proof of the indwelling Spirit is an amazing tenderness in personal dealing, and a blazing truthfulness with regard to God's Word.