Quotes on Religious

It is easy to turn our religious life into a cathedral for beautiful memories, but there are feet to be washed . . .

Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.

I have no right to say I believe in God unless I order my life as under His all-seeing Eye.

God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.

You know, it's one thing to say you believe. It's another thing to have your faith tested severely and come out on the other side of it still believing God.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.

The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his gods to whom he appeals at night with long-drawn howls.

There are some things concerning which we must always be maladjusted if we are to be people of good will. We must never adjust ourselves to racial segregation. We must never adjust ourselves to religious bigotry. We must never adjust ourselves to economic conditions that take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few.

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened.

Grumbling and gratitude are, for the child of God, in conflict. Be grateful and you won't grumble. Grumble and you won't be grateful.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one religious sect, and lay all others under legal disabilities. But as we know not what may take place hereafter, and any such test would be exceedingly injurious to the rights of free citizens, I cannot think it altogether superfluous to have added a clause, which secures us from the possibility of such oppression.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

Regardless of what anyone may personally think or believe about him, Jesus of Nazareth has been the dominant figure in the history of western culture for almost twenty centuries... It is from his birth that most of the human race dates its calendars, it is by his name that millions curse and in his name that millions pray.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.