Religious Quotes
Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.
The Obama Administration's obsession with forcing mandates on the American people has now reached a new low by violating the conscience rights and religious liberties of our people.
Every sin that is left without repentance is a sin unto death, for which if even a saint shall pray, he shall not be heard.
Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.
If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.
One who has sinned cannot escape retribution in any other way than by repentance corresponding to his sin.
One evil receives strength from another. In the same way, good deeds also sprout one from another, and the one in whom they are found grows larger.
When the mind forgets the purpose of Christian life, then even the clear fulfillment of virtue becomes profitless.
Whatever we do or say without prayer always ends up either sinful or harmful and convicts us through the deeds in some mysterious way.
If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.
Do not desire to hear about the misfortunes of those who oppose you. For those who listen to such speech later reap the fruits of their evil intention.
Whoever does not fight the one who despises him, neither in word not in thought, has received true knowledge and demonstrates a firm trust in God.
Do not attempt to benefit by rebukes one who boasts of his virtues, for he loves to display himself can not be a lover of truth.
If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.
A man who is enticed by sinful thoughts is blinded by them, and he sees the action of sin in himself, but he can not see the cause of this action.
The devil makes small sins seem smaller in our eyes, for otherwise he can't lead us to greater evil.
Conquer temptations by the patience and prayer. If you oppose them without these, you will fall all the more severely.
Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
It says right here you've got to be saved to go to heaven. But the way I see it, you've only got to be yourself to go to hell.
When you grow up in America things like Christianity waters down your feeling... When you're taught to love everybody, taught to love you're enemies, what value does that put on love?
There is a crisis of religious authority world wide, and there are many reasons. One is colonialism.
As Wade Clark Roof noted in his study, the 'weightlessness' of contemporary belief in God is a reality...for religious liberals and many evangelicals.
I'm not like a religious exerciser. My parents go down to the gym everyday now, and I'm the one that stays upstairs. But I definitely need to start exercising.
Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is.
I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement
I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.
We know, on the authority of Moses, that longer than six thousand years the world did not exist.
The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.
When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.
There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.
How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.
Snakes and monkeys are subjected to the demon more than other animals. Satan lives in them and possesses them. He uses them to deceive men and to injure them.
I maintain that some Jew wrote it who probably heard about Christian people but never encountered any.
The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing.
The Devil, too, sometimes steals human children; it is not infrequent for him to carry away infants within the first six weeks after birth, and to substitute in their place imps.
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him.
The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing.
If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws.