Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)

We cannot measure the cost of this terrible war in money and material things. I doubt if there can be any spiritual assessment of the loss.

Surely this Islam is your religion, one religion (only), and I am your Lord, therefore serve Me.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion.

Everything passes, and what remains of former times, what remains of life, is the spiritual. In everything we do, the claim of the Absolute is unchanging.

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

If all men cannot be brought to the same opinion on morals and religion, it is at least worthwhile to give them good reasons for as much as they can be persuaded to accept

In a lot of our presentations, we don't talk much about religion because it is such a broad topic, ... Some LGBT people embrace a religion, but others walk away. We want to examine the range of religious perspectives on LGBT issues, particularly on Christian perspectives.

There is something utterly nauseating about a system of society which pays a harlot 25 times as much as it pays its prime minister, 250 times as much as it pays its members of Parliament and 500 times as much as it pays some of its ministers of religion.

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

To overturn orthodoxy is no easier in science than in philosophy, religion, economics, or any of the other disciplines through which we try to comprehend the world and the society in which we live.

Whatever happens, both the campaign and the new government that will take over have to address the issue of federalism, have to address money, have to address national versus provincial versus local power which is different from provincialism and federalism. They have to address the role of religion in politics, the constitution forces the new government to do that. So what we're talking about is a period, which to put it mildly, is already troubled which will last through mid-December when the election occurs and then almost certainly is going to last another three months while a government takes over. And this is the reality whether people would like to spin this into a symbol of democracy or not.

There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth.

For many people religion can be so easy they stumble right over it.

Internet offers the church the opportunity to make the saving message of Christ accessible throughout the world, ... In societies that don't allow the presence of priests, nuns, religious or lay missionaries, Internet can offer people undertaking a spiritual quest, or even just the curious, a chance to obtain information or find an inspiration that would otherwise be impossible.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

But with dogs, we do have bad dog. Bad dog exists. Bad dog Bad dog Stole a biscuit, bad dog The dog is saying, Who are you to judge me You human beings whove had genocide, war against people of different creeds, colors, religions, and I stole a biscuit Is that a crime People of the worldWell, if you put it that way, I think youve got a point. Have another biscuit, sorry.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

Belief, humble belief, is the foundation of all righteousness and the beginning of spiritual progression. It goes before good works, opens the door to an eternal store of heavenly truth, and charts the course to eternal life.... Belief is the brilliant beacon that marks the course through the waves and woes of the world to that celestial harbor where rest and safety are found.

Religion is really at the very center of a lot of our current struggles. To bring someone in who has a fresh perspective and a broader view is the kind of service that a university can perform for the community, not only the students.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

Moreover, no one is judged from the natural man, thus not so long as he lives in the natural world, for man is then in a natural body; but everyone is judged in the spiritual man, and therefore when he comes into the spiritual world, for man is then in a spiritual body.

Every politician in the world has an ideology, and ideology stems from religion.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was involved in a discussion about religion. The other person believed that children should not be given formal religious education of any kind. They would then be free to select their own religion when they were old enough to decide. Coleridge did not bother to debate the point, but invited the man to see his rather neglected garden. 'Do you call this a garden' asked his visitor. 'There are nothing but weeds here.' 'Well, you see,' said Coleridge, 'I did not wish to infringe on the liberty of the garden in any way. I was just giving the garden a chance to express itself and choose its own production.

Europe is dying of a wasting disease of spiritual boredom. Why is a continent that is richer, healthier and more secure failing to produce the human future

I was very, very impressed by the program at Duke, and very taken by more than just its medical approach. For me, there was the intangible that became so important, of the spiritual and emotional commitment that these programs and their doctors have.

Religion is the intellectual resolution of the unknown.

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive.

And who forsakes the religion of Ibrahim but he who makes himself a fool, and most certainly We chose him in this world, and in the hereafter he is most surely among the righteous.

Anyone that thinks that you could just go and bomb this idea out of people's heads hasn't sat on the top of a building and looked at a group of people who had absolutely nothing but their beliefs in their religion,

Zen, per se, is not just an art, it's not just a religion, it's a realisation.

The world is killing itself at the moment, due to religious differences. So it's on everyone's mind and it's a good time to explore different people's attitudes toward religion.

The cleansing of spiritual contamination is accomplished by offering one's talent, resources, and life to the world.

Sacraments, like the Incarnation itself, constitute physical points at which the eternal touches time, or the unseen touches the seen, or grace touches nature. It is the Gnostics and Manicheans who want a purely disembodied religion.

Most religions do not make men better, only warier.

Human spirituality is to seek an answer to the question 'how can you make sense out of a world which does not seem to be intrinsically reasonable'

Man has to wake up from this sleep and to understand that he has a way though which he can end this vileness called human society or world, though the fact of trying to his best to inhibit the natural instinct of having offspring and those who want to take the fastest way to salvation, should commit suicide. The war is a way towards the mass suicide, but not the Way of the Spiritual Coaxialism, because war is the instrument of the villains in the social hierarchy, though which they want to obtain even more privileges. It is not a path of man to save himself, even if he indirectly saves himself through death.

How can you tell when a political ideology has become the equivalent of a religion?

They need a new song like a new religion, music for the television,

That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.

I am a sort of collector of religions and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

Calvinism is the belief (1) That there are three Gods (2) That good works, or the love of our neighbor are nothing (3) That faith is every thing, and the more incomprehensible the proposition, the more merit in its faith (4) That reason in religion.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

A good life is the only religion.

Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain Here patriot Truth her glorious precepts draw, Pledg'd to Religion, Liberty, and Law.