Religious Quotes - Page 29

• Smart men walked on the moon, daring men walked on the ocean floor, but wise men walk with God.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  God, Wise, Wisdom

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• God sees in you a masterpiece about to happen

  Max Lucado

  God, Christian, Preacher

  Twitter post from Jul 10, 2016

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• The world holds two classes of men; intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence.

  Al-Maʿarri

  Atheist, Intelligent, Men

  "A Short History of Freethought, Ancient and Modern, Volume I". Book by John Mackinnon Robertson, 1906.

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• Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheist, Wall, Lying

  Reply to Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen S. Nelson (committee of the Danbury, Conn., Baptist Association), 1 Jan. 1802

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• History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance of which their civil as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purposes.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Believe, Ignorance, Faith Religion

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.193, Cambridge University Press

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• Angels are innumerable heavenly beings - immortal and invincible creations of God. He is the Lord of the hosts of heaven.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Angel

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• the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

  Diane Ackerman

  May, Threat, Wells

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.106, Vintage

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• Religion means a binding. If a man does not feel himself a part of the Universe, and does not hear its pulse, he is not religious. But once he has heard that pulse, he will be hearing it always. Every day his life will replenish itself from this inexhaustible source, eternal and powerful as the sun.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Powerful, Mean, Men

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• The melody of a religious feeling is the music of life itself. To those who do not hear it I could not explain what it sounds like ... If the spark isn't smoldering somewhere inside one, no efforts can ever bring it into existence. Water cannot catch fire.

  Svetlana Alliluyeva

  Fire, Water, Effort

  SVETLANA ALLILUYEVA (1969). “ONLY ONE YEAR”

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

  Edmund Burke

  Cheer, Volcanoes, Peaceful

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.417

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• Religious questions have often led to wicked and impious actions.

  Lucretius

  Wicked, Action

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• I am not ashamed to admit that I belong to those who fantasize that literature is capable of bringing new horizons and new perspectives--philosophical, religious, aesthetical and even social.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Philosophical, Perspective, New Horizons

  Isaac Bashevis Singer's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1978.

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• It appears an extraordinary thing to me, that since there is such a diabolical spirit in the depravity of human nature, as persecution for difference of opinion in religious tenets, there never happened to be any inquisition, any auto da fe, any crusade, among the Pagans.

  Laurence Sterne

  Differences, Spirit, Opinion

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author, Written by Himself ...”, p.43

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• We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we read, and we talk as if the thoughts of other men's heads were really the feelings of our own hearts. But piety has not its seat in the memory, but in the affections, for which however the memory is an excellent purveyor, though a bad substitute.

  Hannah More

  Memories, Heart, Men

  Hannah More (1814). “The Works of Hannah More: Including Several Pieces Never Before Published ...”, p.98

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• The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

  Hannah More

  Memories, Heart, Dry

  Hannah More (1827). “The Works of Hannah More: With a Sketch of Her Life”, p.370

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• the worst wars are religious wars between sects of the same religion or civil wars between brothers of the same race.

  Ayn Rand

  Brother, War, Race

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.674, Penguin

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• Religious bigotry is a dull fire - hot enough to roast an ox, but with no lambent, luminous flame shooting up from it.

  Sara Coleridge

  Flames, Fire, Shooting Up

  Sara Coleridge Coleridge (1873). “Memoir and Letters”, p.260

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• Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.

  Samuel Smiles

  Soul, Peculiar, May

  Samuel Smiles (1881). “Duty, with Illustrations of Courage, Patience, and Endurance”

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• The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Men, Liberty, Degrees

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (Illustrated)”, p.353, Delphi Classics

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• Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Educational, Long, Hug

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• life lived only for oneself does not truly satisfy men or women. There is a hunger in Americans today for larger purposes beyond the self. That is the reason for the religious revival and the new resonance of 'family.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Self, Doe

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• My own view is that one cannot be religious in general any more than one can speak language in general; at any given moment one speaks French or English or Swahili or Japanese, but not 'language.

  Susan Sontag

  Views, Speaks French, Language

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• To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  God, Believe, Existence

  "The Tragic Sense of Life" by Miguel de Unamuno, as translated by J. E. Crawford Flitch, 1921.

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• Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

  Marianne Williamson

  Simple, People, Religion

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

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• It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

  Mary McCarthy

  Spiritual, Hero, Belief

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