Religious Quotes - Page 20

There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.

You've got to be centered on Christ. It's a work of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit forms Jesus within us. No cross? No crown. No pain? No gain. No way around it - if there was a shortcut, I'd know it and I'd tell ya.

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead

The great test of life is to see whether we will hearken to and obey God's commands in the midst of the storms of life.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil

There is an appropriate way to use your story, not as an excuse but as a testimony to God's ability to free you from the past.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!

I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life.

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

What was once easy became confused and hard, which brings us back to the mystic question, who is God?

Once we agree with God that we exist for His pleasure and His glory, we can accept whatever comes into our lives as a part of His sovereign will and purpose. We will not resent, resist, or reject the hard things, but embrace them as friends, sovereignly designed by God to make us more like Jesus and to bring glory to Himself.

It was not by accident that the greatest thinkers of all ages were deeply religious souls.

The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.

I'm free of an abusive cult, based on money and power that worships a fictional deity and safely back with the Catholic Church.

I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice.

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

The essence of the religious emotions consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

I care not for the theoretical symmetry and impregnable logic of your moral code, I care not for the hoary respectability and traditional mysticisms of your theological institutions, I care not for the beauty and solemnity of your rituals and religious ceremonies, I care not even for the reasonableness and unimpeachable fairness of your social ethics,--if it does not turn out better, nobler, truer, men and women,--if it does not add to the world's stock of valuable souls,--if it does not give us a sounder, healthier, more reliable product from this great factory of men--I will have none of it.

And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.