Religious Quotes

The film The Last Temptation of Christ, no matter what its defenders say, was a slap in the face to Christians everywhere.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Just know this, that God is faithful, even when you don't have faith yourself.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

If you're religious, it's like looking at God.

Life as the chosen religious figure for a colony of cryptid mice can be a lot of things, but it's definitely never boring.

I'm not religious, but I've always been attracted to the rituals of religion; as a kid, Sunday church was the closest thing I had to an interactive, theatrical experience.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

When spiritualism dawned, suddenly women who wanted to engage in the civic and religious and political culture were becoming transmediums.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

Religious reverence for one's own job, even if the job is worth doing, is a sexual turnoff.

The religious hospitals would jeopardize their patients' lives rather than perform a medically necessary abortion is not mere speculation, it is documented fact.

You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

I condemn all incidents of violence where religious minorities were targeted, no religious group can incite violence ... my government will ensure there is complete freedom of faith.

The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.

I am an atheist, although I very much admire and have been influenced by many traditionally religious people.

In terms of 'Solaris,' I didn't really think about the religious aspect an awful lot. There's one scene at a dinner party, and it's discussed, but it wasn't an overwhelming theme for me.

There will be many fine and wonderful men and women of all races and creeds-and of no religious creeds at all-who will lead decent and useful lives.

A lot of secular, modern people claim to be disillusioned whenever they learn that any smart person is religious. That's applicable to Newton as it is to any other religious smart person

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

To change your reality, simply stop thinking like that.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

I am telling you that your perception of ultimate reality is more limited than you thought, and that Truth is more unlimited than you can imagine.

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do.

I tell you this: Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

Worry is the activity of a mind which does not understand its connection with Me.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

What you do for your Self, you do for another. What you do for another, you do for the Self. This is because you and the other are one. And this is because...there is naught but You.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another.

Choose, but don't want.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?

We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real.

To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.

The way to reduce the pain which you associate with earthly experiences and events-both yours and those of others-is to change the way you behold them.

I do not love "good" more than I love "bad." Hitler went to heaven. When you understand this, you will understand God.

Words are merely utterances: noises that stand for feelings, thoughts, and experience. They are symbols. Signs. Insignias. They are not Truth. They are not the real thing.

You cannot create a thing-not a thought, an object, an event-no experience of any kind-which is outside of God's plan. For God's plan is for you to create anything-everything-whatever you want.

Your Life is always a result of your thoughts about it-including your obviously creative thought that you seldom get what you choose.

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use.

The world is in the condition that it's in because the world is full of sleepwalkers.

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success."

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

You don't have to do anything! If you enjoy life at this level, if you feel this is the ultimate for you, you can have this experience over and over and over again!

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

Yet if I told you you are born of God-that you are pure Gods and Goddesses at birth-pure love-you would reject me.