Religious Quotes
A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions.
The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.
Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.
They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it's a good thing.
I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.
Proofs are the last thing looked for by a truly religious mind which feels the imaginary fitness of its faith.
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
On the third day after Jesus' own death, He came out of the grave to give the world a sign it cannot deny. For a man to predict His own death and resurrection was something only God could do.
The Jews have always been waiting for a Messiah, but their Messiah is for them only, not for us, a Messiah ho will give them mastery over the Christians.
Jesus is not some puny religious teacher begging for an invitation from anyone. He is the all-sovereign Lord who deserves submission from everyone.
There are few things quite so boring as being religious, but there is nothing quite so exciting as being a Christian!
The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.
Walking in humility isn't focusing on what we are NOT; rather, it's declaring what God is.
To truly know God we must long for Him without any other motive than reaching God Himself.
Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.
Even the nonreligious may exercise aesthetic judgment in matters of religion, and indeed our age has given the unbelieving a sophisticated taste in religious literature.
Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.
Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.
There are times you will be given intuition, you just know something, and you can't explain it. Don't override it. Don't talk yourself out of it. That's the Creator giving you inside information.
Fathers, I do not practice. I'm not religious in life, but when I perform "The Creation of the World" and when my soul is touched by the confrontation of "Good and Evil," then God enters in me.
We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.
Be hopeful at all times and walk in faith, but above all seek love an walk in it. God is love, and when we walk in love we show Him to those we come in contact with.
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.
The one thing the media abhors almost without exception is anyone who takes a firm stand on any issue out of religious principle, unless their stand happens to coincide with their expressed views.
Whenever we remove a brick from the wall that was designed to separate religion and government, we increase the risk of religious strife and weaken the foundation of our democracy.
Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.
At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.
He does not show humility who accuses himself (for who will not accept rebukes from himself?), but he who, being rebuked by another, does not decrease his love toward him.
The plan was always to come to America, because Pakistan's a scary place. They don't have religious freedom. It's very poor, and there's a lot of violence and corruption.
I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations.
In comparing religious belief to science, I try to remember that science is belief also.
The Christian Church should not be a secret society of specialists, but a public manifestation of believers in Jesus.
When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.
There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
Later in the day, a second verse became clear to my vision. It read: "Pray without ceasing."
When people begin to praise us, let us hurry to remember the multitude of ours transgressions, and we will see that we are truly unworthy of that which they say and do in our honor.
Often when religious leaders come together, they talk about a particular sexual ethic, or an abstruse doctrine, as though this, rather than compassion, was the test of spiritual life.
