Inspirational Religious Quotes

A true Master does not "give up" something. A true Master simply sets it aside, as he would do with anything for which he no longer has any use. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Most prayers are not really questions ... and if we listen very closely, a prayer is often its own answer ... We pray because we are here - not to change the world, but to change ourselves. Because it is when we change ourselves ... that the world is changed. ~ Douglas Wood

All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures. ~ Robert McGee

When does life become easy
does it ever become a pain
how do we as a people make things change
could we start with love and spread it from shore to shore
Maybe give our last dollar to the needy and the poor
God gave us grace for all of us to be a free people inside to decide what we need
When all is said and done and its time to go home I hope we all realize that we gave it our all and we made this place a home ~ William Timothy Taylor 2012

Think a thought you can accept. "My success is coming to me now," or "all things lead to my success." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? ~ Eugene H. Peterson

Try not to confuse longevity with a job well done. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Everyone makes mistakes. Whether we put our mistakes to use depends on how deeply we reflect on our actions. It is desirable to reflect until the tears come.
- On Self-Reflection - ~ Kentetsu Takamori

Perhaps I shouldn't like it so much, but I've always been one for finding beauty in the ugliest stories. ~ LeAnn Neal Reilly

We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make. ~ George Albert Smith

The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness. A cruel man might be bribed ... But suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good. The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting. If he yielded to your entreaties, if he stopped before the operation was complete, all the pain up to that point would have been useless. But is it credible that such extremities of torture should be necessary for us? Well, take your choice. The tortures occur. If they are unnecessary, then there is no God or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary. For no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't. Either way, we're for it. ~ C.S. Lewis

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling; One Lord, one faith, one baptism, One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.
Ephesians 4:4-6 (King James Version) ~ Anonymous

He had forgotten that God saw through the silk robes to the sinful heart, that the only wealth worth having was treasure in heaven, and that even the king had to kneel down in church. Feeling that everyone else was so much more powerful and sophisticated than he was, he had lost sight of his true values, suspended his critical faculties, and placed his trust in his superiors. His reward had been treachery. ~ Ken Follett

The promise of God is that you are His son. Her offspring. Its likeness. His equal. Ah ... here is where you get hung up. You can accept "His son," "offspring," "likeness," but you recoil at being called "His equal." It is too much to accept. Too much bigness, too much wonderment-too much responsibility. For if you are God's equal, that means nothing is being done to you-and all things are created by you. There can be no more victims and no more villains-only outcomes of your thought about a thing. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Stake a claim on love. Believe in God. ~ Elizabeth B. Knaus

Your Heart, Your Mind, Your Creator! Your Soul Will Follow. ~ Richard M. Knittle Jr.

God had saved him from the fish cellar and that could only mean one thing. He had more work to do. (John Frith, p.64) ~ Brenda Rickman Vantrease

Put your time to good use because only the present belong to us, tomorrow is never for sure. ~ Luang Phaw Dhammajayo

I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change. ~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

What we called love down there was mostly the craving to be loved. In the main I loved you for my own sake: because I needed you ... We shall have no need for one another now: we can begin to love truly. ~ C.S. Lewis

The soul is forever being. It is being what it is being, regardless of what the body is doing, not because of what it's doing. If you think your life is about doingness, you do not understand what you are about. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

As I stood behind you, I sensed that God was telling me to pay for your groceries, so I did. Simple as that. ~ Clare De Graaf

The beginning is God. The end is action. Action is God creating-or God experienced. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them. ~ R.M. ArceJaeger

How tragic it will be if we don't each come to grips with our own personal potential and learn the role the Lord has in mind for us. How sad if we waste one more day with a lack of commitment and not meet the measure of our creation. ~ Glenn L. Pace

It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot harder. But it's worth it. And you have to admit, it's an adventure. ~ Janice Thompson

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist. ~ Augustine Of Hippo

If we will walk humbly with our God, He will lead us by the hand to exactly who and what we need, to those people, things, and experiences He has designed and intended for us, and this alone will be the cause of our deep fulfillment and happiness. ~ Matthew Kelly

Life is, you know, but an idea. You can fill it up with anything really and deceive yourself into believing that is what you need. You can be happy, sad, benevolent, crafty, unpleasant. That man filled it up with nastiness and it destroyed him in the end. I wonder what could have made him that way. Cruelty on the part of others or cruelty in his heart?" - Lady Cavendish ~ Noorilhuda

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way ~ Mary Doria Russell

I tell you this: Your Life proceeds out of your intentions for it. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Humans have such a need to break everything down into right and wrong. It never occurs to you that you've made those labels up to help you define the material-and your Self. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

If you think God looks only one way or sounds only one way or is only one way, you're going to look right past Me night and day. You'll spend your whole life looking for God and not finding Her. Because you're looking for a Him. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The usual method of creation for most human beings is a three-step process involving thought, word, and deed or action. First comes thought; the formative idea; the initial concept. Then comes the word. Most thoughts ultimately form themselves into words, which are often then written or spoken. This gives added energy to the thought, pushing it out into the world, where it can be noticed by others. Finally, in some cases words are put into action, and you have what you call a result; a physical world manifestation of what all started with a thought. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly. ~ Tony Dungy

If you knew your ending, how would you live your beginning? ~ J. Nell Brown

The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to it the smaller and smaller it will grow,
till he finds it the humble lantern over some little inn or stable. Not till we know the high things shall we know how lowly they are. ~ G.K. Chesterton

Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store - all of the responsibility and none of the authority. ~ Valerie J. Lewis Coleman

true wisdom always leads us to please God. ~ Anthony DeStefano

Wishing you the best, and praying for your success. ~ Diana Mankin Phelps

Everyone takes part in the mosque for one reason; to have a prayer answered. ~ Shujoy Chowdhury

We have, by God's grace, been given another day to serve and love, laugh and learn, pray and ponder. Spring is ready to burst into the open air, and we are ready to embrace it. ~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth. ~ Joyce Meyer

Just because the whole world changes its opinion about something doesn't mean God changes his. ~ Jody Hedlund

I tell you this: You always get what you create, and you are always creating. I do not make a judgment about the creations that you conjure, I simply empower you to conjure more-and more and more and more. If you don't like what you've just created, choose again. My job, as God, is to always give you that opportunity. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. ~ Neal A. Maxwell

You may travel the whole world, but you'll not find true religion anywhere. Whatever there is, it is in your own mind. ~ Abhijit Naskar

Forever is longer than you know. Eternal is longer than Forever. God is more than you imagine. God is the energy you call imagination. God is creation. God is first thought. And God is last experience. And God is everything in between. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

And every Master has likewise had the same message: What I am, you are. What I can do, you can do. These things, and more, shall you also do. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Your eternal destiny will not be the result of chance but of choice. ~ Randall K. Bennett

Providence turns the wheels of destiny. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any religious texts teach us. They're all tales about characters who must confront life and overcome obstacles, figures setting off on a journey of spiritual enrichment through exploits and revelations. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We make real that to which we pay attention. The Master knows this. The Master places himself at choice with regard to that which she chooses to make real. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

God isn't in the event;
God is in the results after the event. He is in the love and concern and caring. ~ Jennifer Worth

once you Cultivate God in your thoughts, you ll find out that happiness is a state of mind . ~ Sam Harik

You are therefore in the process of experiencing yourself by creating yourself anew in every single moment. As am I. Through you. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

For once you rise to a level of God consciousness you will understand that you are not responsible for any other human soul, and that while it is commendable to wish every soul to live in comfort, each soul must choose-is choosing-its own destiny this instant. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

Well then," said I, "if God does not forsake me, of what ill consequence can it be, or what matters it, though the world should all forsake me, seeing on the other hand, if I had all the world, and should lose the favour and blessing of God, there would be no comparison in the loss? ~ Daniel Defoe

Even if one gives up the concept of God, there are quite a few recognized immaterial things that one has to struggle with. Things such as thought, truth, logic, morality, purpose, and justice become a real problem if the universe is simply material. One could say that these things are imaginary, but then they would have to explain the immaterial construct of imagination. ~ Joel Furches

Visions are for the Heavens to see. ~ David Dweck

...all of our tomorrows are God's yesterdays. ~ Richard Sigmund

The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons. ~ Paulo Coelho

The Bible is not only a book which was once spoken, but a book which is NOW SPEAKING. ~ A.W. Tozer

I experienced the joy of living alone for the first time while also falling deeply in love with Eve. Genesis Eve. Mother of all the Living Eve. Paradise Lost Eve. Lover Eve. Sister Eve. My Eve. She, too, had made a decision that was both painful and liberating. I was thankful for her willingness to defy a rule for experience, for story, for possibility. --Kitty Taylor ~ Various

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning. ~ Kentetsu Takamori

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word ... calming the fiercest winds of the soul. ~ The Refined Poet

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty. ~ Mahatma Gandhi

The goal of our lives should be nothing less that becoming so familiar with the "mind of Christ" that we could write Jesus' speeches. ~ Clare De Graaf

And so I tell you this: be now and forever centered upon your Self. Look to see what you are being, doing, and having in any given moment, not what's going on with another. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that? ~ Neale Donald Walsch

All you may know of heaven or hell is within your own self. ~ Edgar Cayce

We all tell little lies about ourselves, Our past, our presents. We think some of them are minuscule, unimportant, And others, large and incriminating. But they are the same. Only God Has enough of the story to judge our souls. ~ Sarah McCoy

Whatever is done without heart is done in the dark, no matter how scriptural it may appear to be ~ A.W. Tozer

And how long will your fingers be so tangled in the law that you can't live out of My grace? ~ Angie Smith

Do not make your mind a dumping ground for other people's garbage. ~ Ezra Taft Benson

God is good, but God is also just. ~ Miss Stapleton

Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things! ~ Philip Cook

Knowing that God is the Provider of Limitless Blessing, I'd like to challenge you, in the midst of your own trials, to ask how you can bless someone else today. ~ Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

Of course we're Christian. The very name of the church declares that. The more people see us and come to know us, the more I believe they will come to realize that we are trying to exemplify in our lives and in our living the great ideals which (Jesus Christ) taught. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

If we can trust God for our eternal salvation, how can we not trust Him to provide for the "little" things of life? ~M.E.Howard ~ M.E. Howard

Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history. ~ Gordon B. Hinckley

Focusing on worldly achievements and acceptance has never been the way to true happiness, and an obsessive, discontent with our physical appearance can lead to unhappiness if not despair. ~ Pamela H. Hansen

I have established Laws in the universe that make it possible for you to have-to create-exactly what you choose. These Laws cannot be violated, nor can they be ignored. You are following these Laws right now, even as you read this. You cannot not follow the Law, for these are the ways things work. You cannot step aside from this; you cannot operate outside of it. ~ Neale Donald Walsch

When you are at your lowest God speaks the loudest. ~ Joanne Wilson-Edwards

God Incidents," were moments of time when, years later, I could see that the hand of God was guiding us toward His purpose. ~ Diana Mankin Phelps

The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness. ~ Heather Bixler

In this case, instead of thinking "I want success," think "I have success." ~ Neale Donald Walsch

We've got enough going on in our lives today without stressing about things that might or might not happen tomorrow ~ Karen Gibbs

Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that "suits" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches. ~ C.S. Lewis

[The Rule:] Just do the next thing you're reasonably certain Jesus wants you to do. ~ Clare De Graaf

I don't actually breakdance. ~ James Webb

Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of: Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, Dharma and the full fledged devotion to God. ~ Swami Vivekananda

God is love and the source of all life. Love is of God and every living creature on this earth, including you and I, represent the great care and love that God put forth in all of His creation. - Q.M. Herrera ~ Q.M. Herrera

God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride. ~ Heather Bixler

When God created you, He created a dream and wrapped a body around it. ~ Lou Engle

A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given. ~ C.S. Lewis

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action ~ Maitreya Upanishad

Dare to Stand Alone ~ Thomas S. Monson

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing. ~ C.S. Lewis

Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy. ~ Deepak Chopra