Religious Quotes

• I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind faith that God is doing the right thing. As a Buddhist, you feel like you have more control over the situation, and that you can change your karma.

  

  Marcia Wallace
  • People
  • God
  • Faith

• In Scotland, Catholics have raised their voices against sectarianism and intolerance directed against the Church. Clearly, these actions show that freedom of religious expression, a basic human right, is not upheld in our midst as widely and as completely as it should be.

  

  Keith O'Brien
  • Freedom
  • Church
  • Religious

• They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother.

  

  Martin McGuinness
  • People
  • Mother
  • Father

• A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

  

  John Kasich
  • Great
  • Power
  • Discipline

• The root cause of terrorism lies not in grievances but in a disposition toward unbridled violence. This can be traced to a world view which asserts that certain ideological and religious goals justify, indeed demand, the shedding of all moral inhibitions.

  

  Benjamin Netanyahu
  • World
  • Violence
  • Moral

• God appeared to His people in the Old Testament and dwelt with His people in the New - and now abides in us by His Spirit.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • People
  • God
  • Christian

• However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

  

  James Schuyler
  • Work
  • Why
  • Religious

• The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

  

  John Stuart Blackie
  • Men
  • Art
  • Artist

• I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Up
  • Family
  • Pretty

• God is faithful and true. Confess your inability and His ability, and keep your eyes on Him.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • True
  • Eyes

• Well, it has done terrifying things. Religious ideas are inflammatory in a way that I find difficult to understand. There are very few wars over the theory of relativity. Very few heated arguments, for that matter. Whereas, in Northern Ireland, they are killing one another over religion.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Done
  • War
  • Ideas

• The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • God
  • Father

• I wanted to be a Priest at one point. I was pretty religious. I was an altar boy, and I was good at it. Then, I started meeting girls and I'm like 'You know, maybe I shouldn't be a Priest.'

  

  Jimmy Fallon
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Boy

• I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Religion
  • Graduates
  • Jesuit

• As a result of changes which, over the last century, have modified our empirically based pictures of the world and hence the moral value of many of its elements, the 'human religious ideal' inclines to stress certain tendencies and to express itself in terms which seem, at first sight, no longer to coincide with the 'christian religious ideal'.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • World
  • Value
  • Christian

• My family was totally non-religious. There was no question we were Jewish, but we were not observant.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Family
  • Question
  • Jewish

• Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

  

  Uri Avnery
  • Life
  • Character
  • Struggle

• A good religious poem, today, is ambergris, and it is hard to enjoy it for thinking of all those suffering whales; but martyrs are born, not made.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Today

• I'm not religious in any way but I am very spiritual. Music is holy to me. It's like my religion. It's sacred. It feels unearthly; it makes me feel a way that talking to somebody doesn't make me feel, it's something you can't even wrap your head around. It's not abstract, you can't even grasp it - that's what music is to me.

  

  Banks
  • Music
  • Religious
  • Spiritual

• The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.

  

  Charles Eastman
  • Mother
  • Religious

• 'Of course I am not religious-I don’t in fact see how any scientist who thinks at all deeply can be so ...'

  

  Philip Warren Anderson
  • Religious

• In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Religious
  • Priest
  • Sorcerer

• It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • Different
  • May
  • Food

• the work of salvation, in its full sense, is (1) about whole human beings, not merely souls; (2) about the present, not simply the future; and (3) about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Work
  • God
  • Future

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