Religious Quotes
I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.
The persons you long for, who have gone to heaven before you, will be waiting for you when you die. They will be ready to comfort you and escort you to heaven.
Whoso is full of sacred (religious, moral, humane) love loves only the spook, the "true man," and persecutes with dull mercilessness the individual, the real man.
Worry is not believing God will get it right, and bitterness is believing God got it wrong.
It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.
The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.
I have never separated the writing of poetry from prayer. I have grown up believing it is a vocation, a religious vocation.
The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.
In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
No one is saved by good works (Ephesians 2:8-9), but every Christian has been saved for good works (verse 10).
Making Saudi Arabia a world judge on women's rights and religious freedom would be like naming a pyromaniac as the town fire chief.
There is really no way we can know the heart, the intentions, or the circumstances of someone who might say or do something we find reason to criticize. Thus the commandment: 'Judge not.'
All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.
Today's religion will be the future's mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever.
The real platform for religion is based on the concepts of compassion, respect and consideration, not just for human beings, but for all forms of life.
No longer possessed by possessions, we may become open enough to become possessed by God.
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.
God is trying to call us back to that for which He created us, to worship Him and to enjoy Him forever
Whoever fears God stands above all manner of fear. He has become a stranger to all the fear of this world and placed it far from himself, and no manner of trembling comes near him.
The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.
Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
One could say that Osama bin Laden and these non-nation-state fighters with religious purpose are very similar to those kind of atypical revolutionaries that helped to cast off the British crown
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
If the religious leaders have influence, they will not permit girls and boys to wrestle together, as recently happened in Shiraz.
Religion itself is without genius. There is no religious genius and no one would be permitted to distinguish between the talented and the untalented in religion.
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself.
Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system.
The real hope is not in something we think we can do, but in God, who is making something good out of it in some way we cannot see.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.
Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.
I have sworn upon the altar of God Eternal, hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.
Every night I talk to God, but he don't say nothing back. I know he protecting me, but I still stay with my gat.
Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.
I don't want to see any religious people in public office because they're working for another boss.
God is no further from you on your worst day than He is on your best day. Just open your heart to receive Him and His love.
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.
In deep confusion, in great despair, when I reach out for him, he is there. When I am lonely as I can be, then I know God shines his light on me.
