Religious Life Quotes
Religious Life Quote of the day
The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.
He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
There's no polite way to say to somebody (religious followers) 'Do you realize you've wasted your life?
To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.
I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life
When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.
The city reveals the moral ends of being, and sets the awful problem of life. The country soothes us, refreshes us, lifts us up with religious suggestion.
If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you, every moment becomes a prayer.
Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.
I'd say my religious life has shaped my worldview; my writing, I'd say too, is an extension of the pulpit...it reaches folks who don't care for organized religion in a different way.
It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .
I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics.
I think people can live a religious life and yet believe in things maybe outside the box a little bit.
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.
I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.
There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.
My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.
It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.
In every aspect of the religious life, American faith has met American culture--and American culture has triumphed.
Dear God, if one day I lose my hope and purpose, give me confidence that your destiny is better than anything I ever dreamed.
When I die and go to heaven, to St. Peter, I will tell: "one more soldier reporting for duty, sir. I've served my time in hell.
Though no one can backtrack and create a brand new start, Everyone is capable of taking their life in a brand new direction.