Religious Quotes
To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, "Our Country, right or wrong," and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?
What shall we do with...the Jews?...I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings...are to be taken from them.
A large number of deaf, crippled and blind people are afflicted solely through the malice of the demon. And one must in no wise doubt that plagues, fevers and every sort of evil come from him.
I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.
A lot of people in the religious world believe that by secularizing, or viewing the changes as secular, such as dropping the beard and changing my appearance, they consider this to be a fall.
Heaven is beyond our imagination . . . . At our most creative moment, at our deepest thought, at our highest level, we still cannot fathom eternity.
Forgiveness is not saying that the one who hurt you was right. Forgiveness is stating that God is faithful and he will do what is right.
Love is manifested not only through the distribution of one's possessions, but even moreso through the spreading of the word of God and helpful deeds.
Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.
For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement for social and political change.
Even back in its colonial days, America developed a reputation as a safe harbor for people with unusual or radical religious beliefs.
I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.
... humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self.
Say your truth-kindly, but fully and completely. Live your truth, gently, but totally and consistently. Change your truth easily and quickly when your experience brings you new clarity.
The soul conceives, the mind creates, the body experiences. The circle is complete.
I'm not religious, and I'm not a Christian, but I do reserve the right to believe in the possibility of a god.
Man is constantly building anxiety-structures, like geodesic domes, around his social and religious institutions.
God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.
Salvation has nothing to do with your religious identity, where you were baptized or where you are a member. It has everything to do with if you have faith in Jesus Christ.
The Church's mission is not political in nature. Her task is to open the world to the religious sense by proclaiming Christ.
The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing.
For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real.
Religious people split into three main groups when faced with science. I shall label them the "know-nothings", the "know-alls", and the "no-contests."
I'm basically a 'do unto others' type person. I don't have any religious feelings because I'm an atheist, but I live my life like there's a God. And if there was he'd probably love me.
Growing up, the two things that made my blood boil were religious intolerance and animal cruelty. I’ve never understood it. I can’t stand to have an animal in pain.
...love must be regarded as one of the religious and dangerous experiences, because it lifts people out of the arms of reason and sets them afloat with no ground under their feet.
Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.
I have often thought that the difference between a cult and a religion is an IRS ruling.
Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.
The abyss beyond our beliefs is something we have to pass through in order to see the world anew, to see it in terms not dictated so much by our culture, our parents, or our religious convictions.
Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely needed guidance.
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer.
One of the greatest problems of humanity is how to live in a multi religious society without losing one's religion - without relativising everything.
The Roman Empire was fairly tolerant of religious choice as long as you made a point not of thumbing your nose in public at the Roman gods.
When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness.