Religious Quotes

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ...

A worshipper perceives that he is near to God because he is awake all night worshipping God. But aft...

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms ...

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time,...

Dear God, you created us in your likeness, our hearts are uneasy until they find you - From the film...

Pardon my French if you're a religious man.''I am,' Bill said, grinning.'Then get outta my cab and g...

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent peop...

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha...

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no retur...

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or...

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not w...

I think one of the sweetest lessons taught by the Prophet, and yet one of the saddest, occurred clos...

Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threaten...

The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but inn...

There is, we are aware, a philosophy that denies the infinite. There is also a philosophy, classifie...

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who ...

Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this rel...

Disciples and devotees…what are most of them doing? Worshipping the teapot instead of drinking the t...

Prayers said by good people are always good prayers

But it was hard, oh, it was hard. Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free ...

These people fail to realize that it is on the inside that God must be defended, not on the outside....

Truth is best (of all that is) good. As desired, what is being desired is truth for him who (represe...

Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can eq...

Religion means to know God and to love Him.

He is your friend who pushes you nearer to God.

My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is...

Scarlet the poppies Blue the corn-flowers, Golden the wheat. Gold for the Eternal: Blue for Our Lady...

Reap, reap the grain and gather The sweet grapes from the vine; Our Lord's mother is weeping, She ha...

No guile? Nay, but so strangely He moves among us. . Not this Man but Barabbas! Release to us Barabb...

And the centurion who stood by said: Truly this was a son of God. Not long ago but everywhere I go T...

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to hi...

I know I'm not God, are you? Don't be silly.God? God? Everybody's God? Don't be silly.

That when we live no more, We may live ever

The giver is more than the gift; God is more than the blessing. And our being kept waiting on Him is...

Have you ever noticed that all four of the greatest poets in the world are Muslim? And yet all the M...

Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.

When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; wh...

The utterance of God is a lamp, whose light is these words: Ye are the fruits of one tree, and the l...

But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window...

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho...

Usually, fundamentalists, be they Christian, Muslim, or any faith, shape and interpret religious tho...

It is not a surprise that a person would want to be a prophet. What's ridiculous is that other peopl...

Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile...

God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mo...

Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that eve...

No net less wide than a man's whole heart, nor less fine of mesh than love, will hold the sacred Fis...

Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our ...

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but wi...

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dull...

Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do th...

Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of...

And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history—money, poverty, ambi...

A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there...

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all ...

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the sci...

The anti-life of [Jerry Falwell] proves only one thing: that you can get away with the most extraord...

So now George has arrived. He is not nervous inthe least. As he gets out of his car, he feels an ups...

Pick a man, any man. That man there. See him. That man hatless. You know his opinion of the world. Y...

If you pay attention to those aspects of God that demonstrate love, truth, beauty, intelligence, ord...

He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You...

Religious Americans donate more and volunteer more time to charitable institutions than do secular A...

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution;...

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness ...

Ask , and it shall be given until you. That is no vain or untried promise, Ruth!

Those who are devoted to amusements; who love the society of those who love pleasure, have an aversi...

Gone is the trust to be placed in oaths; I cannot understand if the gods you swore by then no longer...

As the genuine religious impulse becomes dominant, adoration more and more takes charge. 'I come to ...

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage.

Now, brethren, do not expect perfection in your choice of a mate. Do not be so particular that you o...

While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart.

Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which...

...With a religious book it is less what we see in it than what we see through it that matters. J. R...

The fatted calf, the best Scotch, the hoedown could all have been his too, any time he asked for the...

For of all slaveholders with whom I have ever met, religious slaveholders are the worst. I have ever...

All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine ...

The science of a religious man must be scientific the religion of a scientific man must be religious...

Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine r...

With every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-sp...

I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes.

Aim high, but do not aim so high that you totally miss the target. What really matters is that he wi...

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and com...

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope y...

A proverb in the Old Testament states: 'He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he t...

Cultivate an attitude of happiness. Cultivate a spirit of optimism. Walk with faith, rejoicing in th...

How sweet is the assurance, how comforting is the peace that come from the knowledge that if we marr...

What I'd like to read is a scientific review, by a scientific psychologist--if any exists--of 'A Sci...

Then little Gerda said the Lord's Prayer; the cold was so intense that she could see her own breath;...

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...

But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful...

Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,May keep the path, but will not reach the goal;While he ...