Religious Quotes

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

I think that Rodney Stark studies of new religious movements in the modern world give us some insights into the kinds of questions that we can ask about early Christianity.

My music was too religious for the rock and roll stores and too rock and roll for the religious stores.

The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

You can't blame all people's psychological ills on religion. A lot of people were crazy before they got in a religion and they just happen to be crazy and religious.

At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

To be patriotic, hate all nations but your own; to be religious, all sects but your own; to be moral, all pretenses but your own.

If you are very religious, and your religion teaches you that conception equals a baby, I don't know how I'm ever going to win you over to my side.

People in the church should not accept the notion that the public square is off limits to religious values.

Judge not according to the orthodox standard of a system religious, philosophical, political, but according as things promote, or fail to promote the delicacy, integrity, and authority of Conscience.

I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.

Eve kissed Able, that's how he got murdered by Cain.

God is an oppressor, He is incapable of human sympathy; behind a smiling face He hides an evil heart.

Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

Every human being is a Muslim by nature, not by religious practice. By nature!

Those of us who preach religion: Preach the meaning of "ritual," and stop burying the people and enslaving the people by religious rituals, and then showing them a hypocritical example in leadership!

It is a grave matter to enter a war, without adequate military preparation; it may prove fatal to come into peace, without moral and religious preparation.

Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

A religious symbol does not rest on any opinion. And error belongs only with opinion. One would like to say: This is what took place here; laugh, if you can.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

My family are very, very religious in Texas. They're Southern Baptists. I left to go to New York when I was 17 and I realised I wasn't Southern Baptist. That's not how I am inclined.

It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.

Hand fits giving, so do it, that's what the Gospel said to me. Life fits living, so let your judgments go.

I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.

The practice of truth and nonviolence melted religious differences, and we learnt to see beauty in each religion.

As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.

'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane.

A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

There is no god greater than truth.

If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction.

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.

The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose.

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.

The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.

A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.

The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions.

Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth.

It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man.

I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise.

When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles.

The NGOs in Israel should devote more time to monitoring religious anti-Israel groups, chief among them the so-called "Christian Palestinianists."

The American Dream has always focused on building a better life for yourself and your family, striving for success, and even fleeing from religious prosecution.