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Category: God and Religion

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1. "We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

Oswald Chambers


2. "Don't place question mark in the place where God already place a full stop."

Anon.

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


3. "Man is the result of God's experiments with artificial intelligence."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Human


4. "If there is no God, man is most unfortunate freak of nature. "

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Human -:- Nature and Animals


5. "Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God."

Francis Bacon

Quotations about: Science and Technology


6. "Socialism is the religion people get when they lose their religion."

Richard John Neuhaus


7. "Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion."

George Santayana, "Life of Reason: Reason in Religion"


8. "Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."

Mahatma Gandhi


9. "God's pay is not great, but his retirement plan is out of this world."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death



10. "Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness ... It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Oration and Silence


11. "If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

Zig Ziglar

Quotations about: Human -:- Manners and Ethics


12. "Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual."

Patrick Buchanan


13. "Christians are made, not born."

Tertullian, "Apologeticus"


14. "Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the kitchen makes you a cook."

Anon.


15. "Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


16. "God doesn't require us to succeed; he only requires that you try."

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Quotations about: Success and Fame


17. "Great writers are the saints for the godless."

Anita Brookner

Quotations about: Art and Culture


18. "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)


19. "He preaches well that lives well."

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, "Don Quixote"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


20. "A man's god is that for which he lives, for which he is prepared to give his time, his energy, his money, that which stimulates him and rouses him, excites, and enthuses him."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones


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21. "If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be."

Mahatma Gandhi


22. "No, God isn't dead; Freud and Marx are."

Jeff Sharlet


23. "I don't believe in God, but I miss Him."

Julian Barnes, "Nothing to Be Frightened Of"


24. "If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you, you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"


25. "There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave."

Louis Kronenberger, "Company Manners"


26. "My greatest weapon is mute prayer."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Oration and Silence -:- Power and Weakness


27. "Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Education


28. "The fanatical atheists are like slaves who are still feeling the weight of their chains which they have thrown off after hard struggle. They are creatures who--in their grudge against traditional religion as the "opium of the masses"--cannot hear the music of the spheres."

Albert Einstein


29. "In the faces of men and women I see God."

Walt Whitman, "Song Of Myself"

Quotations about: Human


30. "Those who tell us that they deny the existence of God are merely substituting one god for another."

Fulton John Sheen, "On Being Human"


31. "Any man who thinks he deserves heaven is not a Christian. But for any man who knows he deserves hell there is hope."

Martyn Lloyd-Jones, "The Cross"



32. "Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

Clive Staples Lewis, "Mere Christianity"

Quotations about: Reality and Imagination


33. "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another."

Jonathan Swift, "Thoughts On Various Subjects"

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility


34. "Often when I pray I wonder if i am not posting letters to a non-existent address."

Clive Staples Lewis


35. "What is faith worth if it is not translated into action?"

Mahatma Gandhi


36. "To give a man full knowledge of true morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament."

John Locke

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


37. "God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back."

Gloria Steinem, "Moving Beyond Words"

Quotations about: Question and Problem


38. "I love you much less than my God, but much more than myself."

Pierre Corneille, "Polyeucte"

Quotations about: Love


39. "Every perfect life is a parable invented by God."

Simone Weil

Quotations about: Life and Death


40. "The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep."

Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare"


41. "Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity."

Edmund Burke


42. "Everyone has the same God; only people differ."

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov



43. "Have courage for the great sorrows of life, and patience for the small ones. When you have laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Work and Laziness


44. "God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist."

Charles Baudelaire


45. "When the solution is simple, God is answering."

Albert Einstein

Quotations about: Question and Problem


46. "The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth."

David Goldberg

Quotations about: History and Nations


47. "There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist."

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, "Aphorisms"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics


48. "Religion differs from magic in that it is not concerned with control or manipulation of the powers confronted. Rather it means submission to, trust in, and adoration of, what is apprehended as the divine nature of ultimate reality."

Joachim Wach , "The Comparative Study of Religions"

Quotations about: Power and Weakness


49. "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."

François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire), "Letters on England"

Quotations about: History and Nations


50. "God and the Devil are an effort after specialization and the division of labor."

Samuel Butler, "Notebooks"

Quotations about: Work and Laziness

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