Religious Quotes

There is a sixth sense, the natural religious sense, the sense of wonder.

The truth is that the religious and the scientific processes, though involving different methods, are identical in their final aim. Both aim at reaching the most real.

God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.

You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.

No one expects this nation to become a theocracy, where Christianity is the only value, but we do indeed say that the essential values and founding principles of the nation should not be ignored.

I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.

You gave me your curse, holy Fathers. I give you a blessing: May you be as moral and religious as I am.

Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism.

Beauty is one in the universe, and, whatever form it assumes, it always arouses a religious feeling in the hearts of mankind.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

To exclude religious teaching altogether from education... is a very dangerous and curious tendency. The result is to give paganism a new importance and influence.

When you want to make a beginning of a good deed, first prepare for temptations, which will come to you, and don't doubt the truth of that which you do for God.

I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind.

All I know is that D'Aubuisson is a free enterprise man and deeply religious.

Let them push you, but do not push; Let them crucify you, but do not crucify. Let them insult, but do not insult. Let them slander, but do not slander. Be meek, and do not be zealous in evil.

There is scarcely a page of the Bible on which an open mind does not perceive a contradiction, an unlikely story, an obvious error, an historical impossibility of one sort or another.

[Faith] is nothing more than wishful thinking, and the wish is no evidence of anything beyond itself. Yet so many religious people take their wishes for reality.

There’s no such religious force in the West as powerful as consumerism.

Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

The only Bible-honoring conclusion is, of course, that Genesis 1-11 is actual historical truth, regardless of any scientific or chronological problems thereby entailed.

I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

God notices every one of us; there is not a sparrow or a worm that continues to live apart from His decrees.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

I simply think God is greater than our weakness. In fact, I think it is our weakness that reveals how great God is.

The Church can't be a religious theater where paid men perform for the religious amusement of the people who pay them.

Religious illusion must bow to scientific truth. It is in total error about the nature of the true world. Only science is not an illusion.

Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.

Crosses, contempt, sorrows and afflictions are the real treasures of the lovers of Jesus Christ crucified

The mystic reverence, the religious allegiance, which are essential to a true monarchy, are imaginative sentiments that no legislature can manufacture in any people.

Sir, I think all Christians, whether Papists or Protestants, agree in the essential articles, and that their differences are trivial, and rather political than religious.

What you've got here is really a case of journalists making fun of people who believe in God and the devil.

An earthly kingdom cannot exist without inequality of persons. Some must be free, some serfs, some rulers, some subjects.

In 1963 with Abington v. Schempp, The Court said that reading portions of the New Testament could be 'psychologically harmful' to the children.

As long as Christ sits on the throne, every day is a good day and all days are days of salvation.

God's Kingdom isn't divided into areas of important people and areas of little people. In God's sight, everyone's needful.

The wisdom that living brings, since I got a telegram from the God of simple things.

I am here now, because I am supposed to be here. And I guess when it is my time to cross over there, I will be over there. I am not religious, but I am spiritual, honey. My day is coming!

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

In Constantinople, more Christians were slaughtered by Christians in the years 342-343 than by all the persecutions by pagans in the history of Rome.

There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.

The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!

The right to religious freedom has its foundation, not in the church or society or the state, but in the very dignity of the human person.

My religious point of view is something I can't talk about. It goes against my belief system to talk publicly about my own spiritual beliefs.

Allow the diversity to exist. There is nothing wrong with it. Hell, we put up with the religious right-we can put up with transgendered human beings.

And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.