Religon Quotes

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
― Ronald Reagan

“If it is true, if it is beautiful, if it is honorable, if it is right, then claim it. Because it is from God. And you belong to God.”
― Rob Bell

“If anybody didn't have a messiah complex, it was Jesus”
― Rob Bell, Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith

“I suspect, Lord, that when you combed
the constellations for my elements,
the stardust was still rife
with the ghosts of fallen angels.
I can hear that darkness tapping at my ribs
and what’s worse,
I’ve learned to sleep through the sound.”
― S.T. Gibson

“Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon."
I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant.”
― Robert B. Parker, The Widening Gyre

“There are just some kind of men who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“God supply my needs, one day at a time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“God hears and answers every prayer in His sacred time.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Jehovah-Jireh is a Great provider. Even in times of famine, we have enough to eat.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Sometimes our most holy calling is to listen, to bear witness.”
― Sarah Bessey, Out of Sorts: Making Peace with an Evolving Faith

“Thus the mildest criticism of religion is also the most radical and the most devastating one. Religion is man-made.”
― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

“God simply is,” Bick said. “Humanity embraced It. They gave It color and gender, shape and form. They put words in Its mouth. They always have, and they still do, perhaps they always will. I always experience God as a 'He,' but God is too vast to be held prisoner by language of biology.”
― R.S. Belcher, The Shotgun Arcana

“What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Living a daring life is zealous pursuit.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The theory they used to prevent women voting was that the female brain could not comprehend the complexity of politics. Politics was for men. Child-bearing was for women. And the best supplier of reasons for keeping people in their place has always been religion. We saw it at work in the debate over slavery. The Bible and the Qur’an both took slavery for granted. They took the subordination of women for granted too. So we run up against the awkward fact that sacred texts can be used to supply ammunition for those who want to keep people under control.”
― Richard Holloway, A Little History of Religion

“There is more to life than I imagine”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Live in peace and harmony with all people.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The more we give, the more we are blessed to keep giving.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, & almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from." The man turned his neck several times before continuing.
"If a certain belief--call it 'Belief A'--makes the life of that man or this woman appear to be something of deep meaning, then for them belief A is the truth. If Belief B makes their lives appear to be powerless & puny, then Belief b turns out to be a falsehood. The distinction is quite clear. If someone insists that Belief B is the truth, people will probably hate him ignore him, or, in some cases, attack him. It means nothing to them that Belief B might be logical or provable.”
― Haruki Murakami

“Love the Lord God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“The gospel is the Good News of God's Kingdom.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I must serve the Great Master, God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Live long enough, and life teaches you that God is not your lucky rabbit foot,”
― J Courtney Sullivan

“Comparative religion is very comparative indeed. That is, it is so much a matter of degree and distance and difference that it is only comparatively successful when it tries to compare. When we come to look at it closely we find it comparing things that are really quite incomparable.We are accustomed to see a table or catalogue of the world's great religions in parallel columns, until we fancy they are really parallel. We are accustomed to see the names of the great religious founders all in a row: Christ; Mahomet; Buddha; Confucius. But in truth this is only a trick, another of these optical illusions by which any objects may be put into a particular relation by shifting to a particular point of sight. Those religions and religious founders, or rather those whom we choose to lump together as religions and religious founders, do not really show any common character. The illusion is partly produced by Islam coming immediately after Christianity in the list; as Islam did come after Christianity and was largely an imitation of Christianity. But the other eastern religions, or what we call religions, not only do not resemble the Church but do not resemble each other. When we come to Confucianism at the end of the list, we come to something in a totally different world of thought. To compare the Christian and Confucian religions is like comparing a theist with an English squire or asking whether a man is a believer in immortality or a hundred-per-cent American. Confucianism may be a civilisation but it is not a religion. In truth the Church is too unique to prove herself unique. For most popular and easy proof is by parallel; and here there is no parallel. It is not easy, therefore, to expose the fallacy by which a false classification is created to swamp a unique thing, when it really is a unique thing. As there is nowhere else exactly the same fact, so there is nowhere else exactly the same fallacy.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

“Sin seperates us from the Sovereign holy God.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Manns innsta sannfæring ríkir handan orðanna. Tilraunin ein til að meitla hana í vitræna setningu spillir henni. Þögnin er rotvarnarefni trúarinnar.”
― Halldór Armand, Bróðir

“She was, to him, a holy grace, far more powerful than any priest or nun. God lived in her eyes. That was how he had fallen for her-- like a religious conversion.”
― Otessa Moshfegh

“Jsem si zcela jist, že ta linie evropského ducha, jež vychází z poselství Ježíšova, vede k sociální rovnosti a k socialismu mnohem zákonitěji. A když si vybavuju nejvášnivější komunisty z prvního období socialismu v mé zemi, třeba právě předsedu, který odevzdal do mých rukou Lucii, zdají se mi mnohem víc podobni náboženským horlitelům než voltairiánským pochybovačům. Ta revoluční doba od roku 1948 až do roku 1956 měla málo co společného se skepticismem a s racionalismem. Byla to doba velké kolektivní víry. Člověk, který s tou dobou souhlasně šel, měl pocity podobné náboženským: vzdával se svého já, své osoby, svého soukromí ve prospěch něčeho vyššího, něčeho nadosobního. Marxistické poučky byly sice původy docela světského, ale význam, který se jim přikládal, podobal se významu Evangelia a biblických přikázání. Vytvořil se okruh myšlenek, které byly nedotknutelné, tedy v naší terminologii svaté.”
― Milan Kundera, The Joke

“What else was I to do except what I was told? I never learned how to do anything else.”
― Andrew Joseph White, The Spirit Bares Its Teeth