Religious Quotes
Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.
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.
God's heart is the most sensitive and tender of all. No act goes unnoticed, no matter how insignificant or small.
The highest condition of the religious sentiment is when. . . the worshiper not only sees God everywhere, but sees nothing which is not full of God.
We have lost a very important religious figure who dedicated his life to peace and justice for all. [on the death of Pope John Paul II
Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.
The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?
There are some religious traditions that view human beings as participants in creation. This is true of the Jewish tradition, from which I come.
They who seek religion for culture's sake are aesthetic, not religious, and will never gain that grace which religion adds to culture, because they never can have the religion.
The true celebration of Christmas is when we ponder afresh the grace of God who became human, entered history through a virgin's womb, and brought redemption to the world.
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.
Christians can bring peace to multi-religious Europe because we are able to understand the role of faith in the lives of other believers better than atheists.
The revelation to store food may be as essential to our temporal salvation today as boarding the ark was to the people in the days of Noah.
I wouldn't say that I'm overly religious, but I have a pretty good relationship with my spiritual being.
As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.
In cathedral or cottage, the art of worship is an inner adventure; it is the personal practice of the presence of God.
We know that no one should tell a woman she has to bear an unwanted child. We know that religious beliefs cannot define patriotism.
Whatever his private beliefs and religious practice, a president must be the guardian of the laws which ensure America's religious diversity.
Many religious confessions share common values. They teach that we should do unto others as we would have them do unto us.
I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.
God's love never ceases. Never... God doesn't love us less if we fail or more if we succeed. God's love never ceases.
It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
Religious people spend so much time with their confessors because they like to talk about themselves.
Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.
I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.
Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .
Today there are two Madonnas, our lady of Fatima over here and that woman from Michigan.
I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.
I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.
I pray that politicians, lawmakers and religious leaders have the courage to support the choices terminally ill citizens make in departing Mother Earth with dignity and love.
If there is something comforting - religious, if you want - about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.
I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.
There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America.
If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.
The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
I'm glad He had the never while staring into space, to give this universe a time and place.
From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.