Religion Quotes - Page 83

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

I'm familiar with the Palestinian mentality, the culture, religion, and when I had information coming in on a daily basis: secrets about personal lives, politicians, what they are hiding from their society that most people don't see, I started to see the picture in a different way.

I come from a Catholic religion, but I'm not Catholic.

[Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Viewed systematically, religion can be differentiated from other culturally constituted institutions by virtue only of its reference to superhuman beings.

What I try to do is narrow the sermon series down to one big question. In this case the question is: What happens when grace happens? I knew I wanted to preach about grace. I just felt as if it was time for our church to be refreshed and see the beauty of God's grace - the uniqueness of the Christian grace as compared to the teachings of other world religions on forgiveness.

The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.

[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

The world looks like it was designed. Of course, the Sun also looks like it goes around the Earth. It is only thru science that we know that both of these perceptions are wrong.

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."

Certainty is no guarantor of correctness.

The world is touched by sacrifice. It does not then discriminate about the merits of a cause. No so God - He is all seeing. He insists on the purity of the cause and on adequate sacrifice thereof.

My religion has no geographical limits.

I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures.

I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

It is a tragedy that religion for us means, today, nothing more than restrictions on food and drink, nothing more than adherence to absence of superiority and inferiority.

Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them.

My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth.

The kingdom of god... or nothing!!!

There are a lot of legislators who are afraid that kids will learn science and lose their faith.

The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

Organised religion tries to control, so therefore must be lying.