Religious Quotes - Page 24

• We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States.

  George Washington

  Heart, Men, Light

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.202

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• For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Inspirational, God, Christian

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• The greatest honor we can give Almighty God is to live gladly because of the knowledge of his love.

  Julian of Norwich

  God, Christian, Anchors

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• When he says we’re forgiven, let’s unload the guilt. When he says we’re valuable, let’s believe him. . . . When he says we’re provided for, let’s stop worrying. God’s efforts are strongest when our efforts are useless

  Max Lucado

  Faith, Forgiveness, God

  Max Lucado (2013). “Grace for the Moment: Morning and Evening Devotional Journal”, p.640, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• We are one in Christ; let us be friends with one another; but let us never be friends with one another’s error. If I be wrong, rebuke me sternly; I can bear it, and bear it cheerfully; and if ye be wrong, expect the like measure from me, and neither peace nor parley with your mistakes.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Friends, Jesus, Mistake

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 5: Sermons 225-285”, p.364, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

  George Washington

  Men, Liberty, Citizens

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1838). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.155

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• [Spiritual friendship] is eagerly helping one another know, serve, love, and resemble God in deeper and deeper ways.

  Timothy Keller

  Friendship, Marriage, God

  Timothy Keller (2011). “The Meaning of Marriage: Facing the Complexities of Commitment with the Wisdom of God”, p.85, Penguin

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• When you take time with God and listen to His voice, He renews your strength and enables you to handle life.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Strength, God

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• If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  God, Being Yourself, Unhappy

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.16, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Writing, Offending

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.201, Ballantine Books

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• 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

  Inspirational, God, Atheist

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Beauty, Sunset, Moon

  Mahatma Gandhi (1994). “The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings”, p.175, Grove Press

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• Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.

  Dan Brown

  Inspirational, Science, Odds

  Dan Brown (2009). “Angels & Demons - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• [All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Faith Religion, Daylight, Witch

  Thomas Jefferson (1964). “The Jefferson Bible: With the Annotated Commentaries on Religion of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The many instances of forged miracles, and prophecies, and supernatural events, which, in all ages, have either been detected by contrary evidence, or which detect themselves by their absurdity, prove sufficiently the strong propensity of mankind to the extraordinary and marvellous, and ought reasonably to begat a suspicion against all relations of this kind.

  David Hume

  Strong, Miracle, Religion

  David Hume (1861). “An Essay on Miracles. No. 10 of the “Philosophical Essays concerning Human Understanding.””, p.10

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• God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

  Marquis de Sade

  Son, Thinking, Sides

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• How many people have you made homesick for God?

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Faith, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Our Brilliant Heritage / If You Will Be Perfect / Disciples Indeed: The Inheritance of God's Transforming Mind & Heart”, p.359, Discovery House

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• Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

  Billy Graham

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Nov 26, 2015

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• Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Fear, Hate, Christian Inspirational

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.172, Penguin

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• Tonight, no matter what you're going through... backtrack and remember all the places where God has been so faithful before in your life. And know. Know with assurance. And boldness. And confidence. He is the same faithful God.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  God, Christian, Confidence

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Oct 27, 2014

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• To be a holy person means that the elements of our natural life experience the very presence of God as they are providentially broken in His service. We have to be placed into God and brought into agreement with Him before we can be broken bread in His hands. Stay right with God and let Him do as He likes, and you will find that He is producing the kind of bread and wine that will benefit His other children.

  Oswald Chambers

  God, Christian, Children

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.554, Discovery House

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• Nobody ever got anything from God on the grounds that he deserved it. Haven fallen, man deserves only punishment and death. So if God answers prayer it's because God is good. From His goodness, His lovingkindness, His good-natured benevolence, God does it! That's the source of everything.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, Death, Christian

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• A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

  Ahmad ibn Ajiba

  Faith, Wisdom, Islamic

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• God's salvation does not come in response to a changed life. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.

  Timothy Keller

  Life, God, Free Gifts

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.44, Penguin

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• Your job isn't to judge. - Your job isn't to figure out if someone deserves something or decide who is right or wrong. - Your job is to lift the fallen, restore the broken, and heal the hurting.

  Joel Osteen

  Christian, Hurt, Jobs

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