Top 100 Faith Religion Quotes
#1. It's a very different thing, religion and faith. Religion is man-made, it's man-regulated. And faith, you can define God as you wish. But I think they're two different things.
Vera Farmiga
#2. Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.
Reza Aslan
#3. People liked religion but they didn't want to have to exercise any faith. Religion was comforting with all its structure and its rules. It made people feel safe. But faith wasn't safe. Faith was hard and uncomfortable and forced people to step out on a limb.
Amy Harmon
#4. Religion that is contained only within a church building is a weekend hobby, not a personal faith.
James Lankford
#6. This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings.
Walter Lippmann
#7. The fate of mankind, as well as religion, depends on the emergence of a new faith in the future. Armed with such a faith, we might find it possible to resanctify the earth.
Al Gore
#8. Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem
#9. I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
Robert A. Heinlein
#12. There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion.
Patrick Wilson
#13. 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
#14. Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.
William Penn
#15. The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
Randall Terry
#17. There will be a solidity to their faith which is very dangerous to our designs and difficult to dissolve. There is a luminosity to it. Just one Christian of that type can dispel years worth of diabolical delusion.
Geoffrey Wood
#18. Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#19. The basis lies in the idea that if you're kind to others, good things will happen to you.
Max Gray
#20. Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.
Michel De Montaigne
#21. The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.
Thomas Paine
#23. Islam is a vibrant faith. Millions of our fellow citizens are Muslim. We respect the faith. We honor its traditions. Our enemy does not. Our enemy doesn't follow the great traditions of Islam. They've hijacked a great religion.
George W. Bush
#24. Faith is the only belief which remains alive between heaven and hell.
Munia Khan
#25. Those who embrace the paradigm of religious superiority have an unshakable faith that they are favored by the one true god of the one true religion. They
Jay Snelson
#26. We are like other animals; we live and die as they do. If there is any afterlife, I believe we are in together.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#27. To abandon all is to take our hearts, place them before the One who created them, and dare to believe He can live life powerfully through our surrendered lives.
Mary E. DeMuth
#28. Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho.
Barack Obama
#35. What we call doubt is often simply dullness of mind and spirit, not the absence of faith at all, but faith latent with the lives we are not quite living, God dormant in the world to which we are not quite giving our best selves.
Christian Wiman
#36. It becomes clear that, given our diversity, no single religion satisfies all humanity. ... And since the majority does not practice religion, I am concerned to try to find a way to serve all humanity without appealing to religious faith.
Dalai Lama
#37. We were convinced that the people need and require this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations; we have stamped it out.
Adolf Hitler
#38. Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was
derived from the same root "hap", similar to the word "happening." Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.
Dana Arcuri
#39. Doubt is a first cousin to faith, Ghosh. To have faith, you have to suspend your disbelief.
Abraham Verghese
#41. In America, on the ordinate plane of faith versus reason, the x-axis of faith intersects with the y-axis of reason at the zero point of "I don't give a damn what you think".
Sarah Vowell
#42. I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.
Michael Perry
#43. You may be right. There may be no one greater than you or me. But that 'blind faith' kept me alive, and if you ask me, you're no different. If you've truly given up, why do you keep trying?
J. Kowallis
#44. In India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone - the bed-rock - the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built.
Abhijit Naskar
#46. Religion is intended to facilitate hope and faith. Much like a path is intended to facilitate a journey.
Max Lucado
#47. You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#48. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.
Winston Churchill
#49. The world is on fire with hate- everyone is blaming one another saying that religion is responsible for it!
In all honesty, hate has no fate.
But greed does it needs money, its faith.
Zarina Bibi
#50. Judge, criticize, object before you decide to believe something; but once you believe, you're but an idiot if you need to be scrupulous any more.
Raheel Farooq
#51. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.
John McCain
#52. Most of the people I've encountered are looking not for a religion to answer all their questions but for a community of faith in which they can feel safe asking them.
Rachel Held Evans
#53. Christianity emerged from the religion of Israel. Or rather, it has as its background a persistent strain in that religion. To that strain Christians have looked back, and rightly, as the preparation in history for their faith.
Kenneth Scott Latourette
#54. It's also reflective of a young person's religion or faith in that it's highly charged with sacramental imagery and with country imagery, because I was in the seminary for so many years in the country.
Daniel Berrigan
#55. To have faith in a religion, any religion, is to accept at some primary level that its particular language of words and symbols says something true about reality.
Christian Wiman
#56. The fundamentalists of every faith remain blind to the truth that the "sigh within the prayer is the same in the heart of the Christian, the Muslim, and the Jew." I have seen this unity with my eyes, heard it with my ears, felt it with all my being.
David James Duncan
#57. It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you disbelieve.
James Joyce
#58. Spirituality must be distinguished from religion - because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.
Sam Harris
#59. I am a man that has a lot of respect for faith and spirituality. I think it is important that we talk about religion in today's world.
Russell Crowe
#60. Science ask facts and religion ask faith, humans are confused between life and death.
Santosh Kalwar
#61. In religion faith does not spring out of feeling, but feeling out of faith. The less we feel the more we should trust. We cannot feel right till we have believed.
Horatius Bonar
#62. Faith is our relation not to what we possess but to what possesses us.
Peter Forsyth
#63. When confronted with the order and beauty of the universe and the strange coincidences of nature, it's very tempting to take the leap of faith from science into religion. I am sure many physicists want to. I only wish they would admit it.
Tony Rothman
#66. We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.
Martin Luther
#67. Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving.
Frederick Buechner
#68. The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
John Gresham Machen
#69. The traditional Indian mind has been for centuries, and still is, first religious, and then everything else.
Abhijit Naskar
#71. I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
C.S. Lewis
#72. I have been crucified with Christ and Christ lives in me. I live by faith in the Son of God, who loves me and gave Himself for me." Gal 2:20
Anonymous
#73. When religion is manipulated for political gain, faith loses its prophetic stance.
Jim Wallis
#74. If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.
Criss Jami
#75. Within my own lifetime, I have seen the most ferocious assaults on Christian faith and morals; first on the part of the intellectual community, and then on the part of the government ... the federal government has not even tried to conceal its hostility to religion.
Jesse Helms
#77. I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.
Max Lucado
#78. [Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#79. If anyone makes you feel less than you are, for the color of you skin, for where you come from, for the gender of the person you love, for the religion you have faith in, stand up, speak up, roar. No silence till we are equal.
Thisuri Wanniarachchi
#80. The gospel is life giving, because it generates changes that are received only by grace through faith. This foundational truth, however, gets bypassed, obscured, and forgotten, because, as Martin Luther noted, religion forms the default mode of the human heart.
J.D. Greear
#81. In societies where coolness and being cool is a top priority, the religious replace the word 'religious' with 'spiritual' to make their faiths seem less extreme.
Criss Jami
#82. Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black magic and witchcraft.
Nirmala Srivastava
#83. Faith is not belief in spite of evidence but a life in scorn of the consequences.
Clarence Jordan
#84. The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
Charles C. Ryrie
#86. The real conflict over cosmology is not between religion and science-- it's between religion and materialism, between those who think that religious truth is both real and knowable and those who think that science explains everything.
Scott Klusendorf
#87. My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.
Robbie Williams
#88. The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#89. Blind faith in belief-system, ideologies, doctrine or dogma can never set us free. Only the knowledge of truth can liberate us from the slavery of doctrine, dogmas, blind faiths and religious sects.
Banani Ray
#90. Religion doesn't just cloud our minds. It asks us to deliberately deceive ourselves
to replace reason with its opposite, faith. And when men operate on faith, they can no longer be reasoned with, which makes them more dangerous than any sane man, good or evil.
James L. Sutter
#91. What is Religion according to you?
"Religion is your idea of leading life, the value you not only hold close to your heart but ones that you practice, the passions in your life, the faith in your ideals, the vision you have for your life and the society around you.
Vishwas Mudagal
#92. It is not the function of religion to answer all the questions about God's moral government of the universe, but to give us courage through faith to go on in the face of questions to which we find no answer in our present status.
Harold B. Lee
#93. The faith is not the problem, Bernadette. The problem is the faithful.
Robert Ferrigno
#94. Very little in any organized faith is truly original. Religions are not born from scratch. They grow from one another. Modern religion is a collage ... an assimilated historical record of man's quest to understand the divine.
Dan Brown
#96. The religion which is to guide and fulfill the present and coming ages, whatever else it be, must be intellectual. The scientific mind must have a faith which is science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#98. I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.
It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day.
Toba Beta
#100. The story of Doubting Thomas is told, not so that we shall admire Thomas, but so that we can admire the other apostles in comparison. Thomas demanded evidence ... The other apostles, whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence, are held to us as worthy of imitation.
Richard Dawkins
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