Religious Quotes

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist.

Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.

In every religion, there are those who would drape themselves in the mantle of belief and faith only to distort it's most sacred teachings - preaching intolerance and resorting to violence.

Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we've got an awful lot to learn.

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.

Ancient metaphysics underwent many changes at the hands of medieval thinkers who brought it in line with the dominant religious and theological movements of their day.

I sincerely believe that the collective efforts of many secularists during the past generation, resulting in the expulsion from our schools and from the public square, has left us vulnerable.

Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas.

America was founded by the refuse of the religious fanatics of England, these undesirable elements that came over on the Mayflower. Ignorant, religious fanatics who land here and abuse the Indians.

The Jews are a nervous people. Nineteen centuries of Christian love have taken a toll.

God is present in everything. In the universe in creation, in me and all that happens to me, in my brothers and sisters, in the church - everywhere.

Religious creeds encourage some of the craziest kinds of thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and favor severe manifestations of neurosis, borderline personality states, and sometimes even psychosis.

If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.

We become converted and spiritually self-reliant as we prayerfully live our covenants-through worthily partaking of the sacrament, being worthy of a temple recommend, and sacrificing to serve others.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

The soldier, above all other men, is required to practice the greatest act of religious training - sacrifice.

If there ever was a religious war full of terror, it was the Crusades. But you can't blame Christianity because a few adventurers did this.

The church is not meant to call men and women out of the world into a safe religious enclave but to call them out in order to send them back as agents of God's kingship.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Religion divides us, while it is our human characteristics that bind us to each other.

Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.

Religious tolerance is something we should all practice; however, there have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and religious freedom than anything else.

A person who rejects Christ may choose to say that I do not accept it, he may not choose to say there is not enough evidence.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

What we live is what we believe. Everything else is just so much religious talk.

God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.

Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.

Treat everyone you meet as if they have infinite value because in God’s eyes they do

So many of my friends tell me they’re not religious. I’m like, Of course you’re religious. You watch Oprah Winfrey, don’t you?

It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

Radical Christianity is not going on a missions trip or a big conference. Radical Christianity is staying steady for decades.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

The fruits of Christianity were religious wars, butcheries, crusades, inquisitions, extermination of the natives of America, and the introduction of African slaves in their place.

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

The rise of secularism has brought about an increase in hostility toward things religious.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

God prefers fruits of the spirit over religious nuts.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Blame enables us to smuggle our issues into our future.

When we feel that old spirit of complaining start to bubble up in our hearts, we need to remind ourselves to take time to thank God for His blessings.

Personally, I would not give a fig for any man's religion whose horse, cat and dog do not feel its benefits. Life in any form is our perpetual responsibility.

I'm a polyatheist - there are many gods I don't believe in.

The whole inspiration of our civilization springs from the teachings of Christ and the lessons of the prophets. To read the Bible for these fundamentals is a necessity of American life.

The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.

What matters most is not what I think I am or am not. What matters is what my Father sees in me and what He says about me.

In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.