Religious Quotes - Page 13

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart.

Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone.

Compassion is not religious business, it is human business, it is not luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability, it is essential for human survival.

The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time.

Do not wonder that I am so religious. An artist who is not could not produce anything like this. I like praying there at the window when I look out on the green and at the sky. I study with the birds, flowers, God and myself.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

Religion, a mediaeval form of unreason, when combined with modern weaponry becomes a real threat to our freedoms. This religious totalitarianism has caused a deadly mutation in the heart of Islam and we see the tragic consequences in Paris today. I stand with Charlie Hebdo, as we all must, to defend the art of satire, which has always been a force for liberty and against tyranny, dishonesty and stupidity. 'Respect for religion' has become a code phrase meaning 'fear of religion.' Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible.

Christianity and Western civilization-what countless crimes have been committed in thy name!

It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

I went to the West and saw Islam, but no Muslims; I got back to the East and saw Muslims, but not Islam.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

I hope that no American will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for me or against me solely on account of my religious affiliation. It is not relevant.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

The World is three days: As for yesterday, it has vanished, along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work in it.

People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.

I promise you that all who faithfully attend to temple work will be blessed beyond measure. Your families will draw closer to the Lord, unseen angels will watch over your loved ones when satanic forces tempt them, the veil will be thin, and great spiritual experiences will distill upon this people.

Your identity is firmly anchored in Christ's accomplishment, not yours; his strength, not yours; his performance, not yours; his victory, not yours.

Inside a religious body you get sects and hierarchies, inside an information network you get bazaars and cathedrals, it is the same, call them what you like. They survive by pointing the finger of blame at each other.