Religions & Spirituality Quotes (2350 Quotes)

When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.

Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

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.

The sheikh pointed out that all divine religions are built on the spirit of love and it is important that all of us work together to fight extremism and terrorism,

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

We in South Asia are custodians of an ancient civilization and a rich heritage. The South Asian tapestry is a wonderfully vibrant and colorful weave of races, religions, ethnic communities that bears testimony to the great variations of history, which the region has experienced.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

It is only partly true that religion does more harm than good in society. The community makes God into the image it wants, vengeful, or milky sweet, or scrupulously just, and so on.

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body for the service of Christendom and the church.

The (lower) courts have ruled that prayers before government meetings that invoke religion are unconstitutional,

Peace is the gift of God. Do you want peace Go to God. Do you want peace in four families Go to God. Do you want peace to brood over your families If you do, live your religion, and the very peace of God will dwell and abide with you, for that is where peace comes from, and it doesn't dwell anywhere else.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

It is time to set new coordinates for our lives and to come out from behind the barriers of our own nation, our own religion, our own race and culture and make a decisive effort for peace. God has been longing to see the human family reunited, and this is His time.

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

I'm really interested in conveying sort of a spiritual connection with nature in my work, ... It's about Mother Nature and the protective element. Of course, nature can be extremely threatening as well.

What is it that separates human beings from the so-called lower animals Well, as I see it, its exactly one half-dozen significant things Humor, Imagination, Eroticism- as opposed to the mindless, instinctive mating of glowworms or raccoons- Spirituality, Rebelliousness, and Aesthetics, an appreciation of beauty for its own sake.

The dichotomy between the knowledge of the death and destruction that was going around us, yet the call to prayer, which is a spiritual peaceful moment - and it was beautiful - it was very different,

Day after day we have recited the Pledge from the classroom to the stateroom, from private meetings to public events, and not once has it tended to establish a religion, ... Today's ruling illustrates why we need judges who are umpires applying settled law rather than activists intent on imposing their own ideology.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal,

The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.

Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.

Things are being done in the name of religion, but it's not good enough for the media to describe them simply as Islamic,

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any first and foremost object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for himself.

Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

For the individual, one truth or one religion is essential, ... it is very important to make clear that all religious traditions have the same message love, compassion and contentment.

This ad is very respectful of women, ... The woman is a spiritual and physical trainer for the warrior, and his mentor.

Overall, nationally, no religion is keeping up with the population growth.

The path of the human happiness consists of the supreme attributes of Love, which are Holiness, Faith and Religion. It requires a great deal of attention though so that they are not distorted again through all sorts of cunning intervention that will try to institutionalize them again and with it proclaim a new Original Sin.

In the process of working with others you'll experience great growth in yourself, both emotional and spiritual. Your bond with your Heavenly Father will strengthen unmeasurably. This is both a calling and a sacred trust.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

Creation and destruction are one, to the eyes who can see beauty. And the greatest praise to India is this not only are her people beautiful not only are her daily life and cult beautiful but, in the midst of the utilitarian, humanitarian, dogmatic world of the present day, she keeps on proclaiming the outstanding value of Beauty for the sake of Beauty, through her very conception of Godhead, of religion and of life.

I studied English literature; I took 2 independent religion classes, but I wasn't a religion major really.

He assured me that any personal beliefs he has, be they based on religion or other issues, personal beliefs that all of us carry, would not factor into any of his decisions. He said that they had not while he served on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, and they would not if he is confirmed to the Supreme Court.

The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

I think they're afraid to confront the truth so they find all these stupid false religions, false gives them a good feeling or something.

The Gospel is good news of mercy to the undeserving. The symbolof the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with fruit and shade even to the foe who lays his axe on its trunk The dog can teach you a lesson in Faith, Self-less service and the process of Dedication.

There are people who read too much bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze. . .

Islam as a religion forbids anyone to harm any civilians, any innocent people, around the world.

It's very problematic because of the House. The perks are too enticing for them to convert to the religion of reform.

Islam has, sadly, become a terrorist organization, ... It pains me to say it. But the good news is, it doesn't have to stay this way, if the vast majority of Muslims who don't support terror will step forward and reclaim their religion.

Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion

When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.