Religion Beliefs Quotes
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Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. (Quote by - Umberto Eco)
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. (Quote by - Ludwig Borne)
Beware of the man of one book. (Quote by - Thomas Aquinas)
Faith in the ability of a leader is of slight service unless it be united with faith in his justice. (Quote by - George W. Goethals)
It is not so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa. (Quote by - Stanislaw J. Lec)
All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Many have quarreled about religion that never practiced it. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. (Quote by - Aeschylus)
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentleman who reads it. (Quote by - Robert G. Ingersoll)
Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. (Quote by - George W. Foote)
The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature. (Quote by - Alfred North Whitehead)
The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs. (Quote by - Bill Maher)
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. (Quote by - Austin O'malley)
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence. (Quote by - David Hume)
What men usually ask for when they pray to God is, that two and two may not make four. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
Once you begin to believe there is help "out there," you will know it to be true. (Quote by - Saint Bartholomew)
The prevailing legal and moral views of a time are held not only by those whom they benefit but by those, too, who appear to suffer from them. Their domination is expressed in that fact- that the people from whom they claim sacrifice accept them. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Sermons remain one of the last forms of public discourse where it is culturally forbidden to talk back. (Quote by - Harvey Cox)
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Don't be an agnostic--be something. (Quote by - Robert Frost)
A man must not swallow more beliefs than he can digest. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)
In some awful, strange, paradoxical way, atheists tend to take religion more seriously than the practitioners. (Quote by - Jonathon Miller)
While traveling near Tampa, Florida I passed the "Jehovah's Witness Assembly Hall" and was struck by the fact that that must be where they make them. (Quote by - Gene Spafford)
I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
The fewer words the better prayer. (Quote by - Martin Luther)
The church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back. (Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
Jesus whom I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God. (Quote by - St. Athanasius)
The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts. (Quote by - Frederic Bastiat)
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave. (Quote by - Louis Kronenberger)
And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)
I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within. (Quote by - St. Augustine)
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, his precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
The people who have really made history are the martyrs. (Quote by - Aleister Crowley)
Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact. (Quote by - William James)
The minister's brain is often the "poor-box" of the church. (Quote by - Edwin Percy Whipple)
The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. (Quote by - Jules Renard)
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. (Quote by - Mohandas Gandhi)
When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out. (Quote by - Frank Sinatra)
One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests. (Quote by - John Stuart Mill)
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. (Quote by - Gilbert K. Chesterton)
It is easier for a camel to pass through they eye of the needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. (Quote by - Bible)
I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. (Quote by - William M. Holden)
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
If someone were to prove to me -- right this minute -- that God, in all his luminousness, exists, it wouldn't change a single aspect of my behavior. (Quote by - Luis Bunuel)
Each epoch has found in the Gospels what it sought to find there, and has overlooked what it wished to overlook. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another. (Quote by - John Selden)
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued. (Quote by - Socrates)
The world holds two classes of men: intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. (Quote by - Abu'l-ala-al-ma'arri)
The Christian is not one who has gone all the way with Christ. None of us has. The Christian is one who has found the right road. (Quote by - Charles L. Allen)
If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon Creation, I should have recommended something simpler. (Quote by - Alfonso X)
The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted. (Quote by - William Ralph Inge)
Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church. (Quote by - Ferdinand Magellan)
And now Israel, what does the Lord your God require from you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and love Him, and to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul. (Quote by - Bible)
It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Those of little faith are of little hatred. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
A lot of people say to me, "Why did you kill Christ?" "I dunno... it was one of those parties, got out of hand, you know." "We killed him because he didn't want to become a doctor, that's why we killed him.". (Quote by - Lenny Bruce)
In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part. (Quote by - Michael Bruce)
I went to the root of things, and found nothing but Him alone. (Quote by - Mira Bai)
If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers. (Quote by - George F. Pentecost)
Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying. (Quote by - Thomas Sowell)
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)
Faith has to do with things that are not seen, and hope with things that are not in hand. (Quote by - Saint Thomas Acquinas)
All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way. (Quote by - Frederick The Great)
Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it. (Quote by - Joel A. Barker)
When you were born, you were crying and everyone around you was smiling. Live your life so that when you die, you're smiling and everyone around you is crying. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Agnosticism is the philosophical, ethical and religious dry-rot of the modern world. (Quote by - F. E. Abbot)
The idol is the measure of the worshipper. (Quote by - James Russell Lowell)
There is only one greater folly than that of the fool who says in his heart there is no God, and that is the folly of the people that says with its head that it does not know whether there is a God or not. (Quote by - Otto Von Bismarck)
The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. (Quote by - Chapman Cohen)
We are convinced that we are true soul mates. When I was fifteen and praying for my future wife, she was fourteen and praying for her future husband. (Quote by - Don Buehner)
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. (Quote by - Francis H. Bradley)
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years. (Quote by - Jeff Burroughs)
I always divide people into two groups. Those who live by what they know to be a lie, and those who live by what they believe, falsely, to be the truth. (Quote by - Christopher Hampton)
Religion is a candle inside a multicolored lantern. Everyone looks through a particular color, but the candle is always there. (Quote by - Mohammed Neguib)
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. (Quote by - Denis Diderot)
So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
It needs fanatical faith to rationalize our cowardice. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence. (Quote by - Doug Mcleod)
A habit of devout fellowship with God is the spring of all our life, and the strength of it. (Quote by - Henry Edward Manning)
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Quote by - Bible)
To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. (Quote by - Walter S. Landor)
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything. (Quote by - Robert A. Heinlein)
I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating; but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us; perhaps we shall have to colonize the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there. (Quote by - R. J. Hollingdale)
God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body. (Quote by - Raymond Holliwell)
As a first approximation, I define belief"" not as the object of believing (a dogma, a program, etc.) but as the subject's investment in a proposition, the act of saying it and considering it as true." (Quote by - Michel De Certeau)
I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of. (Quote by - Clarence Darrow)
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative. (Quote by - John Burroughs)
We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country. (Quote by - Pearl S. Buck)
One of the proofs of the divinity of our gospel is the preaching it has survived. (Quote by - Woodrow Wilson)
The object of opening the mind as of opening the mouth is to close it again on something solid. (Quote by - Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither. (Quote by - C. S. Lewis)
Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. (Quote by - Soren Kierkegaard)
Pray to God, but hammer away. (Quote by - Spanish Proverb)
No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state. (Quote by - Felix Adler)
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more and more strongly the truths that come on high and are contained in the sacred writings. (Quote by - John F. Herschel)
Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?". (Quote by - Annie Dillard)
The devil personifies not the nature that is around us but the nature that is within us- the infinitely ferocious and cunning prehuman creature that is still within us, sealed in the subconscious cellars of the psyche. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up. (Quote by - Jim Bakker)
And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin. (Quote by - James Elroy Flecker)
My mind is my own church. (Quote by - Thomas Paine)
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar. (Quote by - Carl Sandburg)
Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Give him a religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish. (Quote by - Timothy Jones)
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Quote by - Joseph Conrad)
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Spiritual progress is like detoxification. Things have to come up in order to be released. Once we have asked to be healed, then our unhealed places are forced to the surface. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
Faith, enthusiasm, and passionate intensity in general are substitutes for the self-confidence born of experience and the possession of skill. Where there is the necessary skill to move mountains there is no need for the faith that moves mountains. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The discussions of every age are filled with the issues on which its leading schools of thought differ. But the general intellectual atmosphere of the time is always determined by the views on which the opposing schools agree. They become the unspoken presuppositions of all thought, and common and unquestioningly accepted foundations on which all discussion proceeds. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. (Quote by - Stephen Roberts)
The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it. (Quote by - Robert Short)
The church is the great lost and found department. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
It was a hug that said you're not alone. It was a hug that, just when I thought all my strength was used up, and I couldn't go on, renewed me. (Quote by - Ann W. Compton)
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. (Quote by - Alexander The Great)
Man can believe the impossible, but can never believe the improbable. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered... (Quote by - Nathaniel Branden)
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the Church. (Quote by - Ferdinand Magellan)
Man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. (Quote by - Euripides)
Rob the average man of his life-illusion, and you rob him of his happiness at the same stroke. (Quote by - Henrik Ibsen)
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow-- You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The best of all the preachers are the men who live their creeds. (Quote by - Edgar A. Guest)
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Scientific criticism has no nobler task than to shatter false beliefs. (Quote by - Ludwig Von Mises)
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you're out selling; otherwise, you won't be able to sell anything. (Quote by - Curtis Carlson)
God's first creature, which was light. (Quote by - Francis Bacon)
The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation. (Quote by - Elizabeth Cady Stanton)
Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him. (Quote by - Billy Sunday)
Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but the phantom we invoke to silence the one and dethrone the other. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself. (Quote by - H. R. Haweis)
Faith is a higher faculty than reason. (Quote by - Henry Christopher Bailey)
If you think practicing what you preach is rough, just try preaching what you practice. (Quote by - Bowen Baxter)
Only the sinner has a right to preach. (Quote by - Christopher Morley)
Fortunately for themselves and for the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions.". (Quote by - Coventry Patmore)
God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them. (Quote by - John H. Aughey)
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
God has been so lavish in his gifts that you can lose some priceless ones, the equivalent of whole kingdoms, and still be indecently rich,. (Quote by - Wilfrid Heed)
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. (Quote by - G. K. Chesterton)
Every man, either to his terror or consolation, has some sense of religion. (Quote by - James Harrington)
Love comes to those who still hope even though they've been disappointed, to those who still believe even though they've been betrayed, to those for whom love still heals, even though they'vebeen hurt before. (Quote by - Anonymous)
The Bible is a window in this prison of hope, through which we look into eternity. (Quote by - John Sullivan Dwight)
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
The foundation of all morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibilities of knowledge. (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all. (Quote by - L. A. Coulson)
The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision. (Quote by - Doug Macleod)
Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. (Quote by - Billy Graham)
If one age believes too much it is natural that another believes too little. (Quote by - George Earle Buckle)
It doesn't matter how many say it cannot be done or how many people have tried it before; it's important to realize that whatever you're doing, it's your first attempt at it. (Quote by - Wally Amos)
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I have not seen As others saw; I could not bring My passions from a common spring. From the same source I have not taken My sorrow; I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone; And all I loved, I loved alone. (Quote by - Edgar Allan Poe)
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. (Quote by - Anne Morrow Lindbergh)
The farther we go, the more the ultimate explanation recedes from us, and all we have left is faith. (Quote by - Vaclav Hlavaty)
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (Quote by - Dylan Thomas)
Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
He who loses money loses much; he who loses a friend loses muchmore; he who loses faith loses all. (Quote by - Anonymous)
With the power of conviction, there is no sacrifice. (Quote by - Pat Benatar)
I hope with all my heart there will be painting in heaven. (Quote by - Jean-baptiste Corot)
I believe though I do not comprehend, and I hold by faith what I cannot grasp with the mind. (Quote by - St. Bernard)
If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it. (Quote by - Nadine Gordimer)
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. (Quote by - Stephen King)
Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man. (Quote by - Francis Cardinal Spellman)
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. (Quote by - Anne Lamott)
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul. (Quote by - Montaigne)
The church must be the critic and guide of the state, and never its tool. (Quote by - Lynn Lavner)
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place. (Quote by - Angela Carter)
Do you know how to digest your food? Do you know how to fill your lungs with air? Do you know how to establish, regulate and direct the metabolism of your body -- the assimilation of foodstuff so that it builds muscles, bones and flesh? No, you don't know how consciously, but there is a wisdom within you that does know. (Quote by - Donald Curtis)
When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them. (Quote by - Richard H. Tawney)
For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made. (Quote by - Bible)
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty. (Quote by - Søren Kierkegaard)
The biblical account of Noah's Ark and the Flood is perhaps the most implausible story for fundamentalists to defend. Where, for example, while loading his ark, did Noah find penguins and polar bears in Palestine? (Quote by - Judith Hayes)
I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal. (Quote by - Emily Bronte)
Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height. (Quote by - George Champman)
Even a band of angels can turn ugly and start looting if enough angels are unemployed and hanging around the Pearly Gates convinced that all the succubi own all the liquor stores in Heaven. (Quote by - Robert M. Pirsig)
I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is. (Quote by - Albert Camus)
The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing. (Quote by - George Dana Boardman)
O God, thy sea is so great, and my boat is so small. (Quote by - Anonymous)
I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her. (Quote by - Arthur C. Clarke)
Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels. (Quote by - Bible)
Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal. (Quote by - Adolph Harnack)
John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me. (Quote by - Rupert Hughes)
A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn. (Quote by - Madame De Sta‘l)
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. (Quote by - Michel De Montaigne)
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. (Quote by - Austin O'malley)
There are things you would love to hear but will never hear fromthe person you want to hear them from, but don't be deaf to the personwho says it with his heart. (Quote by - Anonymous)
We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him. (Quote by - Brother Lawrence)
Fundamentalists believe Jesus was God becoming man. I believe that Jesus was man becoming God. (Quote by - Eric Butterworth)
The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he. (Quote by - Walter Brower)
For verily I say unto you, that whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (Quote by - Bible)
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. (Quote by - H.l. Mencken)
A man often preaches his beliefs precisely when he has lost them and is looking everywhere for them, and, on such occasions, his preaching is by no means at its worst. (Quote by - Melancthon)
Faith is the refusal to panic. (Quote by - David Martyn Lloyd-jones)
God is more concerned about who you are than what you do, and He is more concerned about what you do than where you do it. (Quote by - Gary Gulbranson)
Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
There are three things that can destroy a preacher, the glory, the gold, and the girls. (Quote by - American Proverb)
I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. (Quote by - E. M. Cioran)
Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand. (Quote by - Frederick The Great)
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart. (Quote by - Cotvos)
There is no great future for any people whose faith has burned out. (Quote by - Rufus M. Jones)
The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion. (Quote by - Matthew Arnold)
If "everybody knows" such-and-such, then it ain't so, by at least ten thousand to one. (Quote by - Robert Heinlein)
Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. (Quote by - Charles E. Fuller)
Give to us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for--because unless we stand for something, we shall fall for anything. (Quote by - Peter Marshall)
to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting. (Quote by - Ee Cummings)
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
As you know, God is generally on the side of the big squadrons against the small ones. (Quote by - Comte De Bussy-rabutin)
Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice. (Quote by - Miguel De Cervantes)
Should our moral beliefs really prove to be dependent on factual assumptions shown to be incorrect, it would be hardly moral to defend them by refusing to acknowledge the facts. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
Creation science is an attempt to give credibility to Hebrew mythology by making people believe that the world's foremost biologists, paleontologists, and geologists are a bunch of incompetent nincompoops. (Quote by - Ron Peterson)
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler. (Quote by - Nietzsche)
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
If you talk to God, you are praying; if God talks to you, you have schizophrenia. (Quote by - William Temple)
Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning. (Quote by - Indira Gandhi)
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? (Quote by - St. Augustine)
In His will is our peace. (Quote by - Dante)
All the gods are dead except the god of war. (Quote by - Eldridge Cleaver)
Stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. (Quote by - Bible)
We are what we believe we are. (Quote by - Benjamin N. Cardozo)
With most people unbelief in one thing is founded upon blind belief in another. (Quote by - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
The difference between heresy and prophecy is often one of sequence. Heresy often turns out to have been prophecy -- when properly aged. (Quote by - Hubert H. Humphrey)
If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?. (Quote by - Dr. Robert Anthony)
Oh the depth of both the wisdom and riches of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways beyond understanding. (Quote by - Bible)
The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the disappearance of the groups that have adhered to the "wrong" beliefs. (Quote by - F.a. Hayek)
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. (Quote by - Cannon's Law)
Measure not men by Sundays, without regarding what they do all the week after. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
The neer to the church, the further from God. (Quote by - John Heywood)
The Bible is literature, not dogma. (Quote by - George Santayana)
The church is actually patronized by the social order as a means of stabilizing and perpetuating the existing system. (Quote by - C. C. Morrison)
One should not stand at the foot of a sick person's bed, because that place is reserved for the guardian angel. (Quote by - Jewish Folk Saying)
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. (Quote by - Robert Green Ingersoll)
Religion is the sum of the expansive impulses of a being. (Quote by - Henry H. Ellis)
It is faith among men that holds the moral elements of society together, as it is faith in God that binds the world to his throne. (Quote by - William M. Evarts)
You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea. (Quote by - Medgar Evers)
I am treated as evil by people who claim that they are being oppressed because they are not allowed to force me to practice what they do. (Quote by - D. Dale Gulledge)
There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. (Quote by - Socrates)
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God-seed into God. (Quote by - Meister Eckhart)
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. (Quote by - H. L. Mencken)
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. (Quote by - C. Stacey Woods)
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin. (Quote by - J. C. Macaulay)
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf. (Quote by - Thomas Brooks)
I hope I never get so old I get religious. (Quote by - Ingmar Bergman)
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. (Quote by - Charlotte P. Gillman)
Non-violence is the article of faith. (Quote by - Mahatma Gandhi)
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. (Quote by - Bishop Desmond Tutu)
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. (Quote by - Sydney Smith)
Treat others as thou wouldn't be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others. (Quote by - Sufism)
It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui. (Quote by - Helen Keller)
You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman. (Quote by - James Joyce)
Faith is a continuation of reason. (Quote by - William Adams)
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears apples. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness. (Quote by - James A. Froude)
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply. (Quote by - Walter Lippmann)
A devotee who can call on God while living a householder's life is a hero indeed. God thinks: 'He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties. He is trying to find me, overcoming a great obstacle -- pushing away, as it were, a huge block of stone weighing a ton. Such a man is a real hero.'. (Quote by - Sri Ramakrishna)
The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise. (Quote by - Clement Of Alexandria)
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin. (Quote by - Frank Harris)
How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. (Quote by - Samuel Beckett)
It is not the fact that a person has riches that keeps them from heaven, but the fact that riches have them. (Quote by - Dr. Caird)
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters. (Quote by - Isaac Bashevis Singer)
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. (Quote by - Oswald Chambers)
Every time a child says "I don't believe in fairies" there is a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell Clark)
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing. (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
