Quotes About Religion

Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

Not one man in a thousand has either strength of mind or goodness of heart to be an atheist.

Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.

I believe with all my heart that one cannot be America's president without a belief in God, without the strength that your faith gives you.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

Nothing can occur beyond the strength of faith to sustain, or, transcending the resources of religion, to relieve.

For many Sudanese, it's for strength they choose to be Christian rather than Muslim. My mum was a Muslim but she became a Christian later.

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.

Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

The success I've achieved comes to me from God

It is most difficult, in my mind, to separate any success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

Mazarin, in his character of cardinal and prime minister, was almost an atheist, and quite a materialist.

Deus é o derradeiro recurso. O infeliz que deveria começar pelo Senhor, só consegue confiar nele depois de esgotar todas as outras esperanças.

Ci saranno in ogni epoca e in ogni paese, soprattutto in quelli divisi dalla religione, dei fanatici che non chiederanno di meglio che farsi martiri. Ecco, mi torna in mente proprio ora che i puritani sono furiosi contro il duca di Buckingham e che i loro predicatori lo designano come l'Anticristo».

Ni-l închipuim pe Dumnezeu, dar simÈ›im dragostea; nu cumva dragostea este singurul, unicul È™i adev?ratul Dumnezeu?

Men cannot abandon their religious faith without a kind of aberration of intellect and a sort of violent distortion of their true nature; they are invincibly brought back to more pious sentiments. Unbelief is an accident, and faith is the only permanent state of mankind.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.