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Religion Quotes
"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."
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"While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships."
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"Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again."
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"We have no problems with Jews and highly respect Judaism as a holy religion."
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"The New Testament witnesses were fully aware of the background against which the resurrection took place."
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"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."
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"God, listen to the absurdity within us and raise us from the illusion!"
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"This morning in the Washington Post there was a statistic about how 85% of Americans are Christians."
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"Just as the Russians and the Soviets didn't manage to wipe out languages in Lithuania, neither have they managed to wipe out religion to the extent that we had feared."
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"The purpose of prayer is to reveal the presence of God equally present all the time in every condition."
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"God and religion before every thing!' Dante cried. 'God and religion before the world.' Mr Casey raised his clenched fist and brought it down on the table with a crash.'Very well then,' he shouted hoarsely, 'if it comes to that, no God for Ireland!''John! John!' cried Mr Dedalus, seizing his guest by the coat sleeve. Dante stared across the table, her cheeks shaking. Mr Casey struggled up from his chair and bent across the table towards her, scraping the air from before his eyes with one hand as though he were tearing aside a cobweb. 'No God for Ireland!' he cried, 'We have had too much God in Ireland. Away with God!"
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"Don't neglect the importance of prayer in your Christian life."
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"One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses."
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"Religion is a matter between the man and his Maker."
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"There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion."
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"In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power."
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"Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable."
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"Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying shut the door and talk to God in secret."
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"But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand."
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"Churches thrive on martyrdom and persecution."
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"Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason."
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"For those of you out there today who have already been through hard times and are desperate for a word of encouragement, let me assure you that you can trust this Lord of heaven and earth. Remember that Scripture warns us to "lean not on your own understanding (Proverbs 3:5)."
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"God is calling us to live for the sake of Christ and to do that through suffering. Christ chose suffering; it didn't just happen to Him. He chose it as the way to create and perfect the church. Now He calls us to choose suffering. That is, He calls us to take up our cross and follow Him on the Calvary road and deny ourselves and make sacrifices for the sake of ministering to the church and presenting His sufferings to the world."
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"Do not envy the rich, pity them. Matthew 19:24."
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"According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency."
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"When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe."
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"The Bar Room has a corner table placed strategically at a point diagonally across from the entrance. the table of tables in the setting of settings in the building of buildings. In the religion of lunch, this is the holy of holies."
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"Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I'll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight. I mean, trapping that one between the doors really shouldn't have worked, so clearly you're on board. Let me get out of here, and I'll...I don't know. Donate Adrian's money to the poor. Get baptized. Join a convent. Well, no. Not that last one."
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"I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots."
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"When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you 'You're no good,' you don't have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness."
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"What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don't want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we're too religious, we won't be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him."
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"To believers, the bible is a holy book, to unbelievers, it is a story book."
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"And the more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of of that order was to give room for good things to run wild."
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"Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth."
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"The new soft totalitarianism that is advancing on the left wants to have a state religion It is an atheist, nihilistic religion - but it is a religion that is obligatory for all."
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"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."
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"If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary."
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"Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion."
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"Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them?"
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