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May you find great value in these Religion quotes and sayings.
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin
To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1
The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman
When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung
Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer
I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa
As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible
A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.
- Joseph Addison
When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln
A new command I give you: Love one another.
As I have loved you, so you must love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth (John 13:34)
If anyone has material possessions and sees his brother in need
but has no pity on him, how can the love of God be in him?
- 1 John 3:17
A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Compassion and generosity must be the heart of any true religion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
- St. Francis of Assisi
However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha
Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham
I confess that there is nothing to teach:
no religion, no science, no writings
which will lead your mind back to Spirit.
Today I speak this way, tomorrow that,
but always the Path is beyond words and beyond mind.
- Lao Tzu
(paraphrase)
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.
- Khalil Gibran
The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words
than words without a heart.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Ask and it will be given to you;
seek and you will find;
knock and the door will be opened to you.
- Matthew 7:7
If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers
Words which do not give the
light of Christ increase the darkness.
- Mother Teresa
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner
in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever
- Soren Kierkegaard
This is what the Lord asks of you: only this,
to act justly, to love tenderly,
and to walk humbly with your God.
- Micah 6:8
As you sow, so shall you reap.
- Galatians 6:7
God sometimes does try to the uttermost
those whom he wishes to bless.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Above all the grace and the gifts
that Christ gives to his beloved
is that of overcoming self.
- St. Francis of Assisi
God has given us two hands, one to receive with
and the other to give with.
- Billy Graham
Now abide faith, hope, love, these three;
but the greatest of these is love.
- Corinthians 13:13
Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1
I like the silent church before the service begins,
better than any preaching.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The martyr cannot be dishonored.
Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame;
every prison a more illustrious abode.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day,
I would have studied harder.
- Pope John Paul I
I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry,
and one who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Many people mistake our work for our vocation.
Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
- Mother Teresa
This too, shall pass.
- Bible
One who has any faith in God
should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say.
Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful:
he makes saints out of sinners.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Day by day we should weigh what we have
granted to the spirit of the world
against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus,
in thought and especially in deed.
- Albert Schweitzer
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin [attributed]
I do not believe in immortality of the individual,
and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern
with no superhuman authority behind it.
- Albert Einstein
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