Religion Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Religion

A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

We can never be the better for our religion
if our neighbor is the worse for it.
- Anonymous

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal
to reason and is in conflict with morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

You have heard that it was said,
"Love your neighbor and hate your enemy."
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
- Matthew 5:43-44

Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa

The function of prayer is not to influence God,
but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
- Soren Kierkegaard

Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world,
and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

Re-examine all that you have been told...
dismiss that which insults your soul.
- Walt Whitman

As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- The Bible

When an inner situation is not made conscious,
it appears outside as fate.
- Carl Jung

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- St. Francis of Assisi

What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles

I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy

Humility is not thinking less of yourself,
it's thinking of yourself less.
- Rick Warren (author of The Purpose Driven(R) Life)

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe,
nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws,
but the smallest insect, we wish
to be created at once by special act.
- Charles Darwin

To everything there is a season,
and a time to every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die.
- Ecclesiastes 3:1

Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne

Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace.
- St Francis of Assisi

A willingness to laugh at itself is what distinguishes
a compassionate religion from a cult.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The miracle is not that we do this work,
but that we are happy to do it.
- Mother Teresa

When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin

Even in the Christian religion,
much of its real meaning is hidden by words
that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.
- Ernest Holmes

When I do good, I feel good.
When I do bad, I feel bad.
That's my religion.
- Abraham Lincoln

I love you when you bow in your mosque,
kneel in your temple, pray in your church.
For you and I are sons of one religion,
and it is the Spirit.
- Khalil Gibran

Do not let Sunday be taken from you.
If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.
- Albert Schweitzer

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- Mother Teresa

Let us touch the dying, the poor,
the lonely and the unwanted
according to the graces we have received
and let us not be ashamed
or slow to do the humble work.
- Mother Teresa

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched
the world as much as adversity has.
- Billy Graham

If you have a particular faith or religion,
that is good. But you can survive without it.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Forgive Your Brother from Your Heart.
- Matthew 18:21-22

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy, it does not boast,
It is not proud. It does not dishonor others,
It is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered,
It keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts,
always hopes, always perseveres.
Love never fails.
- Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)

You hold onto religion, you know,
rules, regulations, traditions.
I think what God is interested in
is people's hearts, and that's hard enough.
- Bono

We can live without religion and meditation,
but we cannot survive without human affection.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson

The Spirit is described in the Holy Scriptures
as much more anarchic than any established religion credits.
- Bono

However many holy words you read, however many you speak,
what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
- The Buddha

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Jesus preached more and taught more
about helping the poor and the sick and the hungry
than he did about heaven and hell.
Shouldn't that tell us something?
- John Grisham

Everywhere I look, I see the evidence of a creator.
But I don't see it as religion,
which has cut Irish people in two.
I don't see Jesus Christ as being
in any part of a religion.
Religion to me is almost like when God leaves -
and people devise a set of rules to fill the space.
- Bono

I do not believe in the God of theology
who rewards good and punishes evil.
- Albert Einstein

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle.
I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
- Mother Teresa

Christian voters should start looking
at global warming and extreme poverty
as religious issues that speak to the culture of life.
- Al Franken

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money.
Money is not enough, money can be got,
but they need your hearts to love them.
So, spread your love everywhere you go.
- Mother Teresa

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.
- John Lennon

What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store.
What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.
- Dr. Seuss

For with God all things are possible.
- The Bible

Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
- Psalm 16:1

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians.
Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.
- Mother Teresa

Do to others as you would have them do to you.
- Luke 6:31 (the "Golden Rule")

I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God,
visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
to the third and fourth generations.
- Exodus 20:5

If you believe in forever,
then life is just a one night stand.
- The Righteous Brothers

A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

We should live our lives as though
Christ were coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter

From the solemn gloom of the temple
children run out to sit in the dust,
God watches them play and forgets the priest.
- Rabindranath Tagore

If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi

I have been all things unholy.
If God can work through me, he can work through anyone.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The smallest seed of faith is better than
the largest fruit of happiness.
- Henry David Thoreau

In principle, the great religions of the world
do not differ as much as they appear to.
- Ernest Holmes

For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
- Proverbs 23:7

Don't hide your light under a bushel.
- The Bible

I do not believe in the God of the theologians;
but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt.
- Thomas Edison

I have this theory - that if we're told we're bad,
then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.
- Jewel

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

All the religions of the world,
while they may differ in other respects,
unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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