Religious Quotes

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

For God Himself works in our souls, in the deepest depths, taking increasing control as we are progressively willing to be prepared for His wonder.
Thomas R Kelly

We will be a better country when each religious group can trust its members to obey the dictates of their own religious faith without assistance from the legal structure of their country.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.

For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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.

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternatives.
Barry Goldwater

The true meaning of religion is thus not simply morality, but morality touched by emotion.
Matthew Arnold

I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.
Rudyard Kipling

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.

We may come to Jesus and ask Him; He will know all about it; if He comes to a little child, he will adapt himself to the language and capacity of a little child.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

If I had not actually got into this work and been called of God, I would back out. But I cannot back out: I have no doubt of the truth.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.
Frederick Buechner

The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Frederick Buechner

The word 'Antichrist', to me, is the collective disbelief in god.
Marilyn Manson

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

My mind is my own church.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.
Lucille Ball

I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix

The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms.

After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole France

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
Robert E. Lee

No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, "I love you."

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Marcel Proust

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right..
Brad Pitt

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian religion.
Patrick Henry

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter for truth and justice.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell

I think many people were surprised by the victory of the Congress, because it was really hard to see beyond the sort of haze of hatred that the Hindu nationalists had been spreading.
Arundhati Roy