Quotes About Religion

Half of these Jews are Muslim by religion, since their ancestors fell into disillusionment after the failures of a local seventeenth-century messiah.

when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

From Elisha Comes to Red Horse : Now I can't claim to be what you'd call a religious man, yet I've a respect for religion, and when a man lives out his life under the sun and the stars, half the time riding alone over mountains and desert, then he usually has a religion although it may not be the usual variety.

The Bible, of course, for aside from religion there is much to be learned of men and their ways in the Bible. It is also a source of comments made, of references and figures of speech. No man could consider himself educated without some knowledge of it.

I don't want a religion that I put away with my Sunday clothes, and don't take out till the day comes around again; I want something to see and feel and live day by day.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

It dawned upon her gradually that the world was being picked to pieces, and put together on new and, according to the talkers, on infinitely better principles than before, that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.

As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and held for what it is worth. Certainly, nothing was set down in malice, and to the serious-minded party who objected to a tone of levity in some portions of the Sketches, I can only say that it is a part of my religion to look well after the cheerfulnesses of life, and let the dismals shift for themselves; believing, with good Sir Thomas More, that it is wise to be merrie in God.

never sneer at good things or pretend to be worse than you are. Don't let false shame make you neglect the religion without which no man can live.

that religion was in a fair way to be reasoned into nothingness, and intellect was to be the only God.

You know any Mormons? asked Martin Cross I don't think so. They haven't got to you. They'll come around yet. It's in their religion to change Indians into whites. I thought that was a government job.

Higher Power makes promises we all know they can't back up, but anybody ever go and slap an old malpractice suit on God? Or the U.S. government? No they don't. Faith might be stupid, but it gets us through.

There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.

For this reason, I have stressed his evangelical Baptism as the passkey that unlocks many mysteries of his life.

Early on, John and Laura must have spotted each other as kindred souls, especially when it came to religion.

Rockefeller was drawn to the church, not as some nagging duty or obligation but as something deeply refreshing to the soul.

He preferred to give to religious, cultural, and educational causes, not to social welfare agencies.

the Puritans had produced a religion that validated worldly activity, with "the making of money by acquisition as the ultimate purpose" of life.

For Pierpont and Fanny, Sundays were devoted to religion.

For this reason, he found religion far more of a spur than a hindrance to his ambitions.

A great business investment, religion. I'll take it over government bonds anytime.

Tyndale once told a Catholic antagonist: "I defy the Pope and all his laws. If God spare my life, before many years I will make sure that a boy who drives the plough knows more of the Scriptures than you do.

American Presbyterians strove to balance a high view of God with a low view of humanity.

The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives.