Top 1200 Great Religious Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

We don't need this religious cosmopolitanism. It's no good.

I had a moment of religious epiphanosity.

Oh, I don't have any religious beliefs.

I don't believe in angels, and I'm not a religious person.

My father was very outwardly religious.

The saddest symptom about many so-called Christians is the utter absence of anything like conflict and fight against spiritual apathy in their Christianity. They eat, they drink, they dress, they work, they amuse themselves, they get money, they spend money, they go through a brief round of formal religious services once or twice every week. But of the great spiritual warfare - its watchings and strugglings, its agonies and anxieties, its battles and contests - of all things they appear to know nothing at all. Let us take care that this case is not our own.

Theists and atheists are equally religious.

Genesis fans are a religious group!

I do not want to suggest that you have to be religious to be moral.

I'm a religious man. I believe in God.

In Arkansas, we believe in religious freedom.

I'm a Tulsa Jew and I have a religious upbringing.

A man should be religious, not superstitious.

Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . .

I am basically a religious man.

I am without religious feeling.

Men who not religious or artists are fools.

If you're religious, it's like looking at God.

One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries - Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.

I have a very deep religious belief.

I don't pray. I'm not a deeply religious person.

The great thing for me is I wasn't a great player - I managed at the lower level and managed to be successful and that gives great hope to everyone else.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

An oath-the strongest of religious ties.

My parents are like religious atheists.

You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

The meaning of religious truth is hope.

All art worthy of the name is religious.

True, you don't have to be religious to be crazy, but it helps.

Authenticity is about imperfection. And authenticity is a very human quality. To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections. The great leaders are not the strongest, they are the ones who are honest about their weaknesses. The great leaders are not the smartest; they are the ones who admit how much they don't know. The great leaders can't do everything; they are the ones who look to others to help them. Great leaders don't see themselves as great; they see themselves as human.

I wasn't really raised in a religious family.

Of all knaves the religious knave is the worst.

I'd had a strict religious education.

I'm not a religious person by any means.

Being religious is quintessentially American.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

America is an unusually religious nation.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

I'm fascinated by religion, but I'm not particularly religious.

Human beings are religious animals.

In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.

It's as great a part of the human adventure to invent things as to understand them. John Randall wasn't a great scientist, but he was a great inventor. There's been lots more like him, and it's a shame they don't get Nobel Prizes.

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SPREAD OF CHRISTIANITY WAS DUE PRIMARILY TO A NEW BURST OF RELIGIOUS LIFE EMANATING FROM THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE. . . . NEVER IN ANY CORRESPONDING LENGTH OF TIME HAD THE CHRISTIAN IMPULSE GIVEN RISE TO SO MANY NEW MOVEMENTS. NEVER HAD IT HAD QUITE SO GREAT AN EFFECT UPON WESTERN EUROPEAN PEOPLES. IT WAS FROM THIS ABOUNDING VIGOR THAT THERE ISSUED THE MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE WHICH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY SO AUGMENTED THE NUMERICAL STRENGTH AND THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY.

Achievement comes to someone when he is able to do great things for himself. Success comes when he empowers followers to do great things with him. Significance comes when he develops leaders to do great things for him. But a legacy is created only when a person puts his organization into the position to do great things without him.

You dont necessarily have to be religious to pray.

To Americans religious freedom is sacred.

I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

I believe in God, but I am not religious.

If you don't have religious fallibilism, you have immense problems.

I'm not religious, but wrong or right, that's me.

[My childhood was ] spiritual than religious.

A moment of silence is not inherently religious.

I've always been a religious person.

To be furious in religion is to be irreligiously religious.

I grew up very religious.

A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn't make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist.

Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals.

Kolkata is a great city, has great food and great people. We had some problems finding the kind of old buildings we were looking for, and even handling the crowds, but on the whole it was fun shooting there.

Religious contention is the devil's harvest.

Marriage is a religious and state issue.