Religious Quotes - Page 5

There is a sad myth going around today - the myth of neutrality. According to this myth, the secular world gives every point of view an equal chance to be heard. And it works fairly well - unless you are a Christian.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.

My religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me.

Just think, you're here not by chance, but by God's choosing. His hand formed you and made you the person you are. He compares you to no one else - You are one of a kind. You lack nothing that His grace can't give you. He has allowed you to be here in this time in history to fulfill His special purpose for this generation.

We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity.

We shall not rest until we have rooted out Christianity .

The church of Jesus needs to wake up from the exile of passivity and embrace liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

As the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion; as it has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Musselmen [Muslims] ... it is declared ... that no pretext arising from religious opinion shall ever product an interruption of the harmony existing between the two countries.... The United States is not a Christian nation any more than it is a Jewish or a Mohammedan nation.

Perhaps, a sin that humbles you is better than a good deed that makes you arrogant.

The motive, principle, and end of the religious life is to make an absolute gift of self to God in a self-forgetting love, to end one's own life in order to make room for God's life.

Do you believe that the God of Jesus loves you beyond worthiness and unworthiness, beyond fidelity and infidelity—that he loves you in the morning sun and in the evening rain—that he loves you when your intellect denies it, your emotions refuse it, your whole being rejects it. Do you believe that God loves without condition or reservation and loves you this moment as you are and not as you should be.

Love of Allah is the power of the heart, the sustenance of the heart, the light of the heart.

The dirty alliance between religious preachers and possessors of power brought the boon of prisons, gallows, knouts and above all such theories for the mankind.

The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

Should we not press it home upon our consciences that the sole object of our conversion was not the salvation of our own souls, but that we might become co-workers with our Lord and Master in the conversion of the world?

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.

Humility is not a character trait to develop, it's the natural by-product of being with Jesus.

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

O people who take pleasure in a life that will vanish, falling in love with a fading shadow is sheer stupidity

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

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.