Religious Quotes
The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.
Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.
Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.
God wants to use you in spite of your weaknesses. Of God chose to use perfect people only, He’d have no one to use
Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.
Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?
If Allah wants to send me a message, he'll do so on the faces of my brothers and sisters.
I think the story of the Christian faith is how you can become more deeply and fully human, not how you can become religious. And I don't see any indication that being religious makes you more moral.
Hmmm, completely a-religious - atheist. I find that people seem to think religion brings morals and appreciation of nature. I actually think it detracts from both.
Unfortunately, the source of all this conflict between the Sunnis and Shia is some major powers that do not want religious unity amongst Muslims.
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him.
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does not apply to seventeenth-century Puritanism.
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters.
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.
The kind of poetry I write, lyric poetry, I think is really concerned with intimacy, with mystery. That needn't be religious mystery, there are mysteries to do with everyday life.
The moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and mental development of the age and country which produced it.
There is no racial or religious prejudice among people in the theater. The only prejudice is against bad actors, especially successful ones.
This notion of public-school doors being barred to God would have confounded not only the founding fathers but also those who attended American public schools as recently as the early 1960s.
The people of Israel, like those of the United States, are imbued with a religious faith and a sense of moral values
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.
Every collectivist assumes a different source for the collective will, according to his own political, religious and national convictions.
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.
If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!
Writing is my therapy. In addition to my real therapy. God knows where I'd be without it. I'd probably still be at my last job, working in HR at a religious organization. I was horribly miscast.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
Tolerance is thin gruel compared to the rapture of absolute truths. It's not surprising that religious people are often better protected by atheists and agnostics than each other.
We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality.
With reason did the Most Holy Virgin predict that all generations would call her blessed, for all the Elect obtain eternal salvation through the means of Mary.
Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.
The way I understand it is the communists are in, the atheists are in, the agnostics are in, but religion is out.