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Lord deliver mankind from darkness into light ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
to the world. God created both body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both body and soul. The work of the Spirit of God is not only to save souls but also to care and cultivate the face of the earth, the material world. It is hard to overemphasize the uniqueness of this vision. Outside of the Bible, no other major religious faith holds out any hope or even interest in the restoration of perfect shalom, justice, and wholeness in this material world. Vinoth Ramachandra, a Sri Lankan Christian writer, can see ~ Timothy J. Keller
Religious Faith quotes by Timothy J. Keller
Now, with the general decay of religious faith , it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not. ~ Richard M. Weaver
Religious Faith quotes by Richard M. Weaver
We must also remember that in every little village-god and every little superstitious custom is that which we are accustomed to call our religious faith. But local customs are infinite and contradictory. Which are we to obey, and which not to obey? The Brāhmin of Southern India, for instance, would shrink in horror at the sight of another Brahmin eating meat; a Brahmin in the North thinks it a most glorious and holy thing to do - he kills goats by the hundred in sacrifice. If you put forward your custom, they are equally ready with theirs. Various are the customs all over India, but they are local. The greatest mistake made is that ignorant people always think that this local custom is the essence of our religion. ~ Swami Vivekananda
Religious Faith quotes by Swami Vivekananda
Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become ... ~ Robert Thurman
Religious Faith quotes by Robert Thurman
Is my socialism a religious faith? That's a longstanding critique, most famously expressed in The God That Failed, a book written by disillusioned former Communist Party supporters after World War II. I'm not sure why socialism was the only god singled out by the authors for failure. What grade did the regular God get in the wake of the Nazis and the nuclear devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a C+? ~ Danny Katch
Religious Faith quotes by Danny Katch
Never stop studying the Holy Scriptures . ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
What we lose in our great human exodus from the land is a rooted sense, as deep and intangible as religious faith, of why we need to hold on to the wild and beautiful places that once surrounded us. ~ Barbara Kingsolver
Religious Faith quotes by Barbara Kingsolver
If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed. ~ T. S. Eliot
Religious Faith quotes by T. S. Eliot
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
Krister Stendhal, a Lutheran minister and Harvard University Dean gave these rules of Religious understanding for reporters to use when they are reporting on a religion.

Stendahl's Three Rules of Religious Understanding

(1) When you are trying to understand another religion, you should ask the adherents of that religion and not its enemies.

(2) Don't compare your best to their worst.

(3) Leave room for "holy envy." (By this Stendahl meant that you should be willing to recognize elements in the other religious tradition or faith that you admire and wish could, in some way, be reflected in your own religious tradition or faith.) ~ Kristner Stendhal
Religious Faith quotes by Kristner Stendhal
How come I believe in God? I guess its's because some things are too incredible for people to take all the credit. (pg. 350) ~ Jodi Picoult
Religious Faith quotes by Jodi Picoult
No man succeeds without faith. Whether you call it religious faith or label it something else. I don't feel anything worthwhile is accomplished without it. When you believe there is a Supreme Being guiding the destiny of this universe and that within each of us there is a little part of that Being, then you will have faith in yourself, in your country, in that Supreme Being, and in humanity itself. ~ Walter Knott
Religious Faith quotes by Walter Knott
You see the same God that you saying might not even exist
Becomes real to us, but only when we dying in bed
When ya healthy it's like, we don't really care for Him then
Leave me alone God, I'll call you when I need you again
Which is funny, everyone will sleep in the pews
Then blame God for our problems like He sleeping on you
We turn our backs on Him, what do you expect Him to do?
It's hard to answer prayers when nobody's praying to you ~ Nathan Feuerstein (NF)
Religious Faith quotes by Nathan Feuerstein (NF)
He was possessed now with that obsession for the cross in which so many lips have worn themselves away on crucifixes. ~ Emile Zola
Religious Faith quotes by Emile Zola
This is not (as you have charged) to paint religion with a broad brush. I am very quick to distinguish gradations of bad ideas; some clearly have no consequences at all (or at least not yet); some put civilization itself in peril. The problem with dogmatism, however, is that one can never quite predict how terrible its costs will be. To use one of my favorite examples, consider the Christian dogma that human life begins at the moment of conception: On its face, this belief seems likely to only improve our world. After all, it is the very quintessence of a life-affirming doctrine.

Enter embryonic stem-cell research. Suddenly, this "life begins at the moment of conception" business becomes the chief impediment to medical progress. Who would have thought that such an innocuous idea could unnecessarily prolong the agony of tens of millions of people? This is the problem with dogmatism, no matter how seemingly benign: it is unresponsive to reality. Dogmatism is a failure of cognition (as well as a commitment to such failure); it is the state of being closed to new evidence and new arguments. And this frame of mind is rightly despised in every area of culture, on every subject, except where it goes by the name of "religious faith." In this guise, parading its most grotesque faults as virtues, it is granted a special dispensation, even in the pages of Nature. ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government. And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to. They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes. So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church. ~ Alan Alda
Religious Faith quotes by Alan Alda
Religious faith always transcends culture, and is the integrating principle and power of man's cultural striving. ~ Henry R. Van Til
Religious Faith quotes by Henry R. Van Til
Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops. ~ Richard Dawkins
Religious Faith quotes by Richard Dawkins
both of my grandparents had an almost religious faith in hard work and the American Dream. Neither was under any illusions that wealth or privilege didn't matter in America. On politics, for example, Mamaw had one opinion - "They're all a bunch of crooks" - but Papaw became a committed Democrat. He had no problem with Armco, but he and everyone like him hated the coal companies in Kentucky thanks to a long history of labor strife. So, to Papaw and Mamaw, not all rich people were bad, but all bad people were rich. Papaw was a Democrat because that party protected the working people. ~ J.D. Vance
Religious Faith quotes by J.D. Vance
We believe that if the world doesn't go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the 'beyond life' is as important as life itself. ~ Miguel Serrano
Religious Faith quotes by Miguel Serrano
It is not what we do for God that He counts worthy, but the work we let Him do in us. ~ Oswals Chambers
Religious Faith quotes by Oswals Chambers
A true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their whole lives working on. A Democratic Spirit's constituent rigor and humility and self-honesty are, in fact, so hard to maintain on certain issues that it's almost irresistibly tempting to fall in with some established dogmatic camp and to follow that camp's line on the issue and to let your position harden within the camp and become inflexible and to believe that he other camps are either evil or insane and to spend all your time and energy trying to shout over them. ~ David Foster Wallace
Religious Faith quotes by David Foster Wallace
I think I understand that religious faith which makes the holy brave and strong; my strength is just somewhere else
it's in myself ... I do not fear what may await me, though I'm equally confident that nothing awaits. ~ Jon Krakauer
Religious Faith quotes by Jon Krakauer
The form of life Jesus offers his followers is not one of social integration but a scandal to the priestly and political establishment. It is a question of being homeless, propertyless, peripatetic, celibate, socially marginal, disdainful of kinsfolk, averse to material possessions, a friend of outcasts and pariahs, a thorn in the side of the Establishment and a scourge of the rich and powerful. Indeed, Pierre Bayle points to this fact as an argument against the political necessity of religious faith. Christianity, he remarks, is no basis for civil order, since Jesus proclaims that he has come to pitch society into turmoil.47 ~ Terry Eagleton
Religious Faith quotes by Terry Eagleton
The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity. ~ Charles Eliot Norton
Religious Faith quotes by Charles Eliot Norton
The living and dead were thrown together, and the dead looked away first.

-Description of Doomsday ~ Stanley Elkin
Religious Faith quotes by Stanley Elkin
As for religious faith, a lack of it shouldn't stop us from doing good deeds for their own sake. ~ Juliet Marillier
Religious Faith quotes by Juliet Marillier
The government and the church are two different realms of service, and those in political office have to face a subtle but important difference between the implementation of the high ideals of religious faith and public duty. ~ Jimmy Carter
Religious Faith quotes by Jimmy Carter
Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention
though they'd be skeptical
but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct. ~ Julian Sanchez
Religious Faith quotes by Julian Sanchez
It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to realize that the spiritual factor is important. I say 'spiritual' without meaning any particular religion or faith, just simple warmhearted compassion, human affection, and gentleness. It is as if such warmhearted people are a bit more humble, a little bit more content. I consider spiritual values primary, and religion secondary. As I see it, the various religions strengthen these basic human qualities. As a practitioner of Buddhism, my practice of compassion and my practice of Buddhism are actually one and the same. But the practice of compassion does not require religious devotion or religious faith; it can be independent from the practice of religion. Therefore, the ultimate source of happiness for human society very much depends on the human spirit, on spiritual values. If we do not combine science and these basic human values, then scientific knowledge may sometimes create troubles, even disaster.... ~ Dalai Lama XIV
Religious Faith quotes by Dalai Lama XIV
Although many things can be said in criticism of religious faith, there is no discounting its power. Millions among us, even now, are quite willing to die for our unjustified beliefs, and millions more, it seems, are willing to kill for them. ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
Religious faith is the only area of discourse where immunity through conversation is considered noble . It's the only area of our lives where someone can win points for saying, There's nothing that you can do to change my mind and I'm taking no state of the world ultimately into account in believing what I believe. There's nothing to change about the world that would cause me to revise my beliefs. ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
No Bible, Quran or Veda can give you religion. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Religious Faith quotes by Abhijit Naskar
If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education. ~ Dalai Lama
Religious Faith quotes by Dalai Lama
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State. ~ Thomas Jefferson
Religious Faith quotes by Thomas Jefferson
For Christian writers, religious faith is not a rebellion against reason, but a revolt against the imprisonment of humanity within the cold walls of a rationalist dogmatism. ~ Alister E. McGrath
Religious Faith quotes by Alister E. McGrath
Already at sixteen, my mind was a battlefield: my love of pagan beauty, the male nude, at war with my religious faith. A polarity of themes and forms: one spiritual, the other earthly. ~ Michelangelo
Religious Faith quotes by Michelangelo
The time has come for people of reason to say: Enough is Enough! Religious faith discourages independent thought, it's divisive and it's dangerous. ~ Richard Dawkins
Religious Faith quotes by Richard Dawkins
Poetry resists academic pretension, just as the mystery of religious faith evaporates on contact with dogma. ~ Patrick White
Religious Faith quotes by Patrick White
Mormonism is the house whose walls I know best. It is the story I am not abandoning because it is the story I choose-and in many ways gas chosen me-again and again to grapple with. Mormonism is my native spiritual language and many of the threads with which my life's tapestry is woven. ~ Ashley Mae Hoiland
Religious Faith quotes by Ashley Mae Hoiland
How can a society actively promote religious faith on one hand and condemn a man for zealously adhering to his faith on the other? ~ Jon Krakauer
Religious Faith quotes by Jon Krakauer
A growing number of respectable scientists are defecting from the evolutionist camp ... moreover, for the most part these "experts" have abandoned Darwinism, not on the basis of religious faith or biblical persuasions, but on strictly scientific grounds, and in some instances, regretfully. ~ Wolfgang Smith
Religious Faith quotes by Wolfgang Smith
Christians must focus on Jesus Christ. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Patriotism is the wholesome, constructive love of one's land and people. Nationalism is the unhealthy love of one's government, accompanied by the aggressive desire to put down others – which becomes in deracinated modern men a substitute for religious faith. Patriotism is an appropriate, indeed necessary, sentiment for people who wish to preserve their freedom; nationalism is not. ~ Clyde N. Wilson
Religious Faith quotes by Clyde N. Wilson
But [religious faith]'s not extinct, Janet. It's become nearly universal in the fleet and is growing very quickly in the Alliance."

"Yes, and that's why I cannot now or I think ever will have a chosen faith. There should be no pressure for the path one takes. Oh, it's no secret that Islam has more of an appeal to me than the others, but Allah understands this as he understands all things. The notion of faith is, I believe, far more important than the choice of a particular one."

"And what of the unfaithful?" asked Justin. "What of them?"

"If they have faith, I believe they'll have greater understanding of things; if not, I can't order someone to believe. It would be stupid to try and evil to force someone to pretend. As if God wants frightened adherents bowing on trembling knees. The harm all those fanatics did before the Grand Collapse," she said with true rancor, "those idiots I'd shoot, if I had the ability. ~ Dani Kollin
Religious Faith quotes by Dani Kollin
Let me repeat: the crimes of violence committed for selfish personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majoram gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to a flag, a leader, a religious faith, or a political conviction. Man has always been prepared not only to kill but also to die for good, bad or completely futile causes. And what can be a more valid proof of the reality of the self-transcending urge than this readiness to die for an ideal? ~ Arthur Koestler
Religious Faith quotes by Arthur Koestler
The whole point of religious faith, its strength and chief glory, is that it does not depend on rational justification. The rest of us are expected to defend our prejudices. But ask a religious person to justify their faith and you infringe 'religious liberty'. ~ Richard Dawkins
Religious Faith quotes by Richard Dawkins
Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins ... ~ T. Rafael Cimino
Religious Faith quotes by T. Rafael Cimino
It is taboo in our society to criticize a persons religious faith ... these taboos are offensive, deeply unreasonable, but worse than that, they are getting people killed. This is really my concern. My concern is that our religions, the diversity of our religious doctrines, is going to get us killed. I'm worried that our religious discourse- our religious beliefs are ultimately incompatible with civilization. ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
Those of religious faith see time as evidence of god. For surely nothing could be created without a creator. Nothing could be universal and not be divine. All absolutes are part of the One Absolute. ~ Alan Lightman
Religious Faith quotes by Alan Lightman
People whom live in a world dominated by science and technology are losing belief in God and turning away from religion. Science eliminated the traditions that formerly made living an art form including the rain celebration of spring and traditional harvest festivals. ~ Kilroy J. Oldster
Religious Faith quotes by Kilroy J. Oldster
It seemed as if hell were put into His cup; He seized it, and at one tremendous draught of love, He drank damnation dry. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Religious Faith quotes by Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
If we use our religion to make us feel bigger, better, stronger than another, instead of secure enough to be one with each other, then I believe we've missed the point. ~ Charles F. Glassman
Religious Faith quotes by Charles F. Glassman
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them ~ Elie Wiesel
Religious Faith quotes by Elie Wiesel
Here is my challenge. Name one ethical statement made, or one ethical action performed, by a believer that could not have been uttered or done by a nonbeliever. And here is my second challenge. Can any reader think of a wicked statement made, or an evil action performed, precisely because of religious faith? The second question is easy to answer, is it not? The first - I have been asking it for some time - awaits a convincing reply. By what right, then, do the faithful assume this irritating mantle of righteousness? They have as much to apologize for as to explain. ~ Christopher Hitchens
Religious Faith quotes by Christopher Hitchens
Marxism is now a world faith and must be allowed to enter into a continuous dialogue with other world faiths, including religious faiths ~ Tony Benn
Religious Faith quotes by Tony Benn
I think having some sort of religious faith can be helpful for many people, because it kind of puts things in perspective a bit. ~ Dave Smalley
Religious Faith quotes by Dave Smalley
Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Religious Faith quotes by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith. ~ Louis Auchincloss
Religious Faith quotes by Louis Auchincloss
Once we know how observant a person is in terms of church attendance, nothing that we can discover about the content of her religious faith adds anything to our understanding or prediction of her good neighborliness ... In fact, the statistics suggest that even an atheist who happened to become involved in the social life of the congregation (perhaps through a spouse) is much more likely to volunteer in a soup kitchen than the most fervent believer who prays alone. It is religious belongingness that matters for neighborliness, not religious believing. ~ Robert Putnam
Religious Faith quotes by Robert Putnam
My question to the atheist is, do you want an atheist world or a peaceful world? And to the believer, do you want a religious world or a peaceful world? Religious orientation doesn't define peace, but the answer here may define one's true nature. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Religious Faith quotes by Abhijit Naskar
F-A-I-T-H The Fundamental Authority of Irrefutable Truth that assures confident Hope ~ Pamela Christian
Religious Faith quotes by Pamela Christian
Holiness in the purest form is independent of all textual doctrines, all churches and all institutions. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Religious Faith quotes by Abhijit Naskar
I don't think it's any coincidence that I lost my religious faith and 'manned up' in the same year. I was described somewhere as a lapsed Catholic, which is funny because I'm not going back! I want to achieve things rather than live life in an animalistic way. ~ Jimmy Carr
Religious Faith quotes by Jimmy Carr
The distortions and insults about organized religion will continue unabated as long as our popular culture continues its overall campaign against judgment and values. A war against standards leads logically and inevitably to hostility to religion because it is religious faith that provides the ultimate basis for all standards. ~ Michael Medved
Religious Faith quotes by Michael Medved
Whether you call yourself a Christian, a Jew, a Muslim, a Hindu or an Atheist, if you have kindness in your heart and compassion in your act, you are on the right path of religion. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Religious Faith quotes by Abhijit Naskar
Doing science is not inherently incompatible with religious faith. ~ George Coyne
Religious Faith quotes by George Coyne
In the domain of true religion, mere book-learning has no right to enter. ~ Abhijit Naskar
Religious Faith quotes by Abhijit Naskar
He suspected the Archdeacon of not having read them; he was in painful doubt as to what was really thought of them by the leading minds of Brasenose, and bitterly convinced that his old acquaintance Carp had been the writer of that depreciatory recension which was kept locked in a small drawer of Mr. Casaubon's desk, and also in a dark closet of his verbal memory. These were heavy impressions to struggle against, and brought that melancholy embitterment which is the consequence of all excessive claim: even his religious faith wavered with his wavering trust in his own authorship, and the consolations of the Christian hope in immortality seemed to lean on the immortality of the still unwritten Key to all Mythologies. For ~ George Eliot
Religious Faith quotes by George Eliot
In religious and in secular affairs, the more fervent beliefs attract followers. If you are a moderate in any respect - if you're a moderate on abortion, if you're a moderate on gun control, or if you're a moderate in your religious faith - it doesn't evolve into a crusade where you're either right or wrong, good or bad, with us or against us. ~ Jimmy Carter
Religious Faith quotes by Jimmy Carter
Let our religions unite us for human kindness rather than dividing us on what we believe. Eid Mubarak ~ Hockson Floin
Religious Faith quotes by Hockson Floin
Even if you're not a Catholic, even if you're not a Christian, in fact even if you have no religious faith at all, what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith. ~ Chris Matthews
Religious Faith quotes by Chris Matthews
We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us. ~ Vladimir Zhirinovsky
Religious Faith quotes by Vladimir Zhirinovsky
The supposed "secular" values atheists hold dear are in fact borrowed Christian values. Our society is respectful of any creed, or lack thereof, not because it embraces an illusory, non-existent secular morality, but because it is rooted in Christian faith. Christopher Dawson noted that "we cannot understand the inner form of a society unless we understand its religion." Because moral values are always a religious product, and Western moral values are a product of Christianity. Our values, what we believe has a value beyond and above our self-interest, are grounded in religious faith or are not grounded at all. ~ Giorgio Roversi
Religious Faith quotes by Giorgio Roversi
God is the Father of light. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
I love reading religious authors. Especially in the sort of circle I move in, people tend to be more secular, and I love reading books by just really smart people of religious faith. It's always a really cool perspective. ~ Mallory Ortberg
Religious Faith quotes by Mallory Ortberg
And here, for me, is another profound truth: understanding, as well as truth, comes not only from the intellect but also from the body. When we begin to listen to our bodies, we begin to listen to reality through our own experiences; we begin to trust our intuition, our hearts. The truth is also in the "earth" of our own bodies. So it is a question of moving from theories we have learned to listening to the reality that is in and around us. Truth flows from the earth. This is not to deny the truth that flows from teachers, from books, from tradition, from our ancestors, and from religious faith. But the two must come together. Truth from the sky must be confirmed and strengthened by truth from the earth. We must learn to listen and then to communicate. ~ Jean Vanier
Religious Faith quotes by Jean Vanier
Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. ~ Michele Bachmann
Religious Faith quotes by Michele Bachmann
Culture derives its meaning from man's faith in God; it is never an end in itself, but always a means of expressing one's religious faith. ~ Henry R. Van Til
Religious Faith quotes by Henry R. Van Til
All my life I'd been a believing Christian ... But that instant in the ER
the instant Annette [his wife] died
I seemed to feel my religious faith die, too.
As I thought more about it in the bleak days and weeks that followed, I decided the Bible had gotten it exactly backward. Maybe God hadn't created us in His image; maybe we'd created god in our image. ~ William M. Bass
Religious Faith quotes by William M. Bass
When I remove the layers that say I can't, I discover a burning ember that says I should, I can, and I will. ~ Charles F. Glassman
Religious Faith quotes by Charles F. Glassman
Renew your mind with word of God. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Religious Faith quotes by Lailah Gifty Akita
Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Religious Faith quotes by Eleanor Roosevelt
In a world described by quantum physics, an insistence on causal closure of the physical world amounts to a quasi-religious faith in the absolute powers of matter, a belief that is no more than a commitment to brute, and outmoded, materialism. ~ Jeffrey M. Schwartz
Religious Faith quotes by Jeffrey M. Schwartz
If you could only speak the devil fair enough, he might save you the cost of the doctor. Such strange lingering echoes of the old demon-worship might perhaps even now be caught by the diligent listener among the grey-haired peasantry; for the rude mind with difficulty associates the ideas of power and benignity. A shadowy conception of power that by much persuasion can be induced to refrain from inflicting harm, is the shape most easily taken by the sense of the Invisible in the minds of men who have always been pressed close by primitive wants, and to whom a life of hard toil has never been illuminated by any enthusiastic religious faith. To them pain and mishap present a far wider range of possibilities than gladness and enjoyment: their imagination is almost barren of the images that feed desire and hope, but is all overgrown by recollections that are a perpetual pasture to fear. ~ George Eliot
Religious Faith quotes by George Eliot
It is my firm belief that the God of Heaven raised up the founding fathers and inspired them to establish the Constitution of this land. This is part of my religious faith. To me this is not just another nation. It is a great and glorious nation with a divine mission to perform for liberty-loving people everywhere. ~ Ezra Taft Benson
Religious Faith quotes by Ezra Taft Benson
Religious faith is not a storm cellar to which men and women
can flee for refuge from the storms of life. It is instead, an
inner spiritual strength which enables them to face those
storms with hope and serenity. ~ Sam Ervin
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Ervin
The Christians seek to blot out all wisdom save their own; and in that strife they are banishing from this world all forms of mystery save that which will fit into their religious faith. They have pronounced it a heresy that men live more than one life - which every peasant knows to be true. ~ Marion Zimmer Bradley
Religious Faith quotes by Marion Zimmer Bradley
When God calls you on a Mission, gear up!
No bed of roses, it's a hard climb up.
God's a so mysterious and complex type:
"He might even make you poor to bring life."

When called, don't resist, don't ever complain;
you can do the job well, He'll make it plain
to the point that you thought you did it all:
"Glory to God, blessed are they whom He'll call. ~ Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
Religious Faith quotes by Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol
It is the ideology of cultural and religious indifference, which denies the transcendent origin of the moral values that form the basis of our civilisation, and therefore implies the irrelevance of religion. Multiculturalism is the choice not to have a culture, because choosing a culture implicitly means to choose a religion. It is the assertion that Christianity, or any religious faith, is irrelevant and can be easily and harmlessly disposed of, because a supposedly "secular set of values" is ready to take its place. ~ Giorgio Roversi
Religious Faith quotes by Giorgio Roversi
There is a schizophrenic nature in modern politics. A leader is expected to have a religious faith but he is not supposed to let it influence him in his duties. Somehow, the truths that determine everything else about his existence are not allowed to influence how he conducts himself in public life. Not only that, his principles are usually considered so personal that the public is not even allowed to know for certain what they are. This passes for noble statecraft in our time. It was once thought cowardice. ~ Stephen Mansfield
Religious Faith quotes by Stephen Mansfield
I believe that religious faith schools are highly dubious. ~ Bjorn Ulvaeus
Religious Faith quotes by Bjorn Ulvaeus
If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped. ~ Paul Johnson
Religious Faith quotes by Paul Johnson
If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it. ~ Richard Blackaby
Religious Faith quotes by Richard Blackaby
The Constitution had provided that all the public functionaries of the Union ... should be under oath or affirmation for its support. The homage of religious faith was thus superadded to all the obligations of temporal law to give it strength. ~ John Quincy Adams
Religious Faith quotes by John Quincy Adams
As a Christian, a trained engineer and scientist, and a professor at Emory University, I am embarrassed by Superintendent Kathy Cox's attempt to censor and distort the education of Georgia's students ... There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend our religious faith. ~ Jimmy Carter
Religious Faith quotes by Jimmy Carter
A three-day-old human embryo is a collection of 150 cells called a blastocyst. There are, for the sake of comparison, more than 100,000 cells in the brain of a fly. If our concern is about suffering in this universe, it is rather obvious that we should be more concerned about killing flies than about killing three-day-old human embryos… Many people will argue that the difference between a fly and a three-day-old human embryo is that a three-day-old human embryo is a potential human being. Every cell in your body, given the right manipulations, every cell with a nucleus is now a potential human being. Every time you scratch your nose, you've committed a holocaust of potential human beings… Let's say we grant it that every three-day-old human embryo has a soul worthy of our moral concern. First of all, embryos at this stage can split into identical twins. Is this a case of one soul splitting into two souls? Embryos at this stage can fuse into a chimera. What has happened to the extra human soul in such a case? This is intellectually indefensible, but it's morally indefensible given that these notions really are prolonging scarcely endurable misery of tens of millions of human beings, and because of the respect we accord religious faith, we can't have this dialogue in the way that we should. I submit to you that if you think the interests of a three-day-old blastocyst trump the interests of a little girl with spinal cord injuries or a person with full-body burns, your moral intu ~ Sam Harris
Religious Faith quotes by Sam Harris
The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. ~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Religious Faith quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
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