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"1154 Religion Quotes

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

First Good Happen Help
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Many people who no longer go to church end up falling prey to superstition.

Church End Falling Go
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

Religion Spirituality Without You
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.

Christian Doubted Equally General
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When asked if I consider myself Buddhist, the answer is, Not really. But it's more my religion than any other because I was brought up with it in an intellectual and spiritual environment. I don't practice or preach it, however.

Answer Any Asked Because
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Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.

About All Religions Am Buddhism
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I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Active Actress Actually Around
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When I have a terrible need of - shall I say the word - religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

Go Need Out Paint
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.

Stillness Teaching Vehicles Around
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.

God Jesus Realized Son
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Jesus said, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' I think if he lived nowadays, instead of 'kingdom,' he would have said, 'dimension.' And 'heaven' refers to a sense of vastness or spaciousness.

Dimension Heaven Instead Jesus
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We grew up going to church, and I believe in God. I don't know that I have the ability to define what or who or how God is. You know, I think that religion kind of messes people up in that regard. That's just my own personal philosophy.

Ability Believe Church Define
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My mother raised me in the church. I was not allowed to stay home on Sunday; there was no option. I sang in the choir all the way up until I went to college.

Allowed Choir Church College
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My mother was a Sunday school teacher. So I am a byproduct of prayer. My mom just kept on praying for her son.

Am Her I Am Just
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I don't think it's cool for people to say, 'You shouldn't reference God because I don't believe that, and I don't want to hear it.' Well, there's a lot of stuff I don't believe that I still gotta hear.

Because Believe Cool God
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There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

Away Been Blows Christ
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God has given me a life far beyond anything I ever dreamed about. God is, man, God is something else man.
About Anything Beyond Dreamed
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I'm just a living witness that you can be an imperfect soldier and still be in the army fighting for God Almighty. Don't you think you got to be perfect 'cause I ain't.

Almighty Army Cause Fighting
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God has positioned me just this way to be just like I am, to say what I say how I say it.

Am God How I Am
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I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

Barometer Believe God Just
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Haste is of the Devil.

Devil Of The Haste
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Why do you not practice what you preach.

Practice Preach Why You
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Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Abandon God Held Lord
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Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Best Blessings General God
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If I were asked for a one-sentence sound bite on religion, I would say I was against it.

Against Asked Bite Religion
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The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
End Following God Him
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Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.

Change Changes Does God
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Creates Does God He
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If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe.

Am Because Believe Cannot
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You have been praying for your leaders and their families, it's time you pray for yourself and your family; you too deserve to live.

Praying Leaders Families Pray
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Let us take control of our situation instead of being afraid, for Satan, the cause of crisis, has been defeated.
Satan Control Instead Afraid
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I ain't here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I'm just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that's the way yall need Jesus.

School Teacher Facial Features
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I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

God's Vessel But Greatest
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Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
Derives Desires Fact Falls
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Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

Become Give God Grown
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Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.

Belief Forced Just No-One
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How can you possibly reconcile the justice of God with the idea that only through Christ can you be saved? Most of the world lives and dies and never even hears of Christ. There has to be some mechanism set up for all those who have ever lived to have an opportunity to hear of Christ.

Christ Dies Even Ever
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

Allah Beat Our Side
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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Arouse Being Ecstasy Envy
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.

Always Becomes Born Important
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My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.
Accident Belief Born Find
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From a Hindu perspective, you are born as what you need to deal with, and if you just try and push it away, whatever it is, it's got you.

Away Born Deal Got
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My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

Brings Closer Found God
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We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Our Punished Sins Them
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You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

God Know Need Never
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Faithful servants never retire. You can retire from your career, but you will never retire from serving God.

Career Faithful God Never
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God is looking for people to use, and if you can get usable, he will wear you out. The most dangerous prayer you can pray is this: 'Use me.'

Dangerous Get God He
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If God only used perfect people, nothing would get done. God will use anybody if you're available.
Anybody Available Done Get
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During the next 90 days, people are going to be more open to the Gospel than in years. It is God's responsibility to make people receptive; it is our responsibility to sow the seed.

Days God Going Gospel
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.

Church Culture History Shows
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