Religious Quotes

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.

We had better dispense with the personification of evil, because it leads, all too easily, to the most dangerous kind of war: religious war.

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.

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.

Veblen once asked a religious student the value of her church in kegs of beer.

All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science.

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.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

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.

The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding.

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

The right to revolt has sources deep in our history.

A friend is someone who can brighten your day with a simple smile, when others try to do it with a thousand words.

Quit questioning God and start trusting Him!

To make the moral achievement implicit in science a source of strength to civilization, the scientist will have to have the cooperation also of the philosopher and the religious teacher.

Music is the only sensual gratification which mankind may indulge in to excess without injury to their moral or religious feelings.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

The Messiah will only come when he is no longer needed.

One of the blunders religious people are particularly fond of making is the attempt to be more spiritual than God

Conformity—the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority.

For faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction - faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

You will never be saved against your will; God drags nobody to heaven by the ears.

The love of life, at any and every level of development, is the religious impulse.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

More cases of loss of religious faith are to be traced to the theory of evolution. . .than to anything else.

A thing is only right or wrong because you say it is. A thing is not right or wrong intrinsically.

God is love and if you are ready, he always is.

At times life becomes too busy for religious thoughts.

On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

Man is the religious animal. He is the only one that's got true religion, several of them.

Religions are conclusions for which the facts of nature supply no major premises.

If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?

All that is required is to know this. For you are the creator of your reality, and life can show up no other way for you than that way in which you think it will.

In the last generation, with public Christianity in headlong retreat, we have caught our first, distant view of a de-Christianized world , and it is not encouraging.

Instant Karma is going to get you.

When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

The biggest religious wars and persecutions in history occur when religions, each claiming their own absolute truths, come into conflict.

The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

If you're not looking forward to church this morning perhaps it's time to look for a church.

We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.

Religious leaders need to be held accountable for their ideas.

Without the religious element, life is like an engine running without oil-it seizes up.

Surely if men's hearts were right, short sermons would be enough.

The only one who could ever reach me was the son of a preacher man.

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.