Religion Vs Relationship Quotes

#1. Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship.

Charles F. Stanley

#2. Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

Noah Feldman

#3. Serving people is more important to God than the religious activities we engage in

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Religion should lay more emphasis on our relationship with people

Sunday Adelaja

#5. The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?

Leo Tolstoy

#6. I'm interested in spirituality and in religion and our relationship to the divine.

Giancarlo Esposito

#7. Love fuels the existence of a divine being

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Sorry. But I don't need some money-grubbing preacher defining my relationship with God.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. Think about this for a moment, we grow so inured to these religious forms, think about the notion of instituting at the center of your religion a rite where you eat your god is probably a memory of a relationship to some kind of a psychedelic experience of some sort.

Terence McKenna

#10. Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law.

Criss Jami

#11. Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.

Dolly Parton

#12. I'm connected to religion and that's how I access God. I'm in a relationship with God that can sometimes be informed by religion, but not dependent on religion,

DeVon Franklin

#13. Being in relationship with Jesus, "God, The One and Only", is the single cure for hatred ... the only guarantee of salam or shalom!

Gary Patton

#14. Christianity is not a religion or a philosophy, but a relationship and a lifestyle. The core of that lifestyle is thinking of others, as Jesus did, instead of ourselves.

Rick Warren

#15. We must not confuse religion with God, or technology with science. Religion stands in relationship to God as technology does in relation to science. Both the conduct of religion and the pursuit of technology are capable of leading mankind into evil; but both can prompt great good.

Robert Winston

#16. Mackenzie, the truth shall set you free and the truth has a name; he's over in the woodshop right now covered in sawdust. Everything is about him. And freedom is a process that happens inside a relationship with him. Then all that stuff you feel churnin' around inside will start to work its way out.

Wm. Paul Young

#17. The only relationship where you'll never have your heart broken is the relationship between you and Allah.

Little_adam

#18. My relationship with religion is very strong because it was my hope, and it gave me two things very important in my life. It gave me the belief and it gave me a point to reach: Don't do something bad to the people next to you.

Riccardo Tisci

#19. Nothing else you do will ever matter as much as helping people establish an eternal relationship with God.

Rick Warren

#20. Often the truth is in front of your face, but your eyes and heart are so full of lies that you can't see it.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. We can have a friendly and intimate relationship with God.

Stefan Emunds

#22. Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator.

Feisal Abdul Rauf

#23. The strength of love is beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Jesus often calls us to risk. He asks us to be vulnerable, to be authentic, so others can see Him in and through us.

Mary E. DeMuth

#25. I saw money becoming more and more important everywhere. It's one of the most abstract and important inventions by human beings. At the same time, money is capable of extraordinary corruption in every kind of relationship. I tried to see how and why, more and more, money is becoming a religion.

Costa-Gavras

#26. Food is about agriculture, about ecology, about man's relationship with nature, about the climate, about nation-building, cultural struggles, friends and enemies, alliances, wars, religion. It is about memory and tradition and, at times, even about sex.

Mark Kurlansky

#27. I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

Max Lucado

#28. We are all human first and the human relationship regardless of race, religion or gender is one of respect.

Otis Teague

#29. Divinities of the soul are life, light and love.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#30. There is a mathematics to all his relationships, underlying each and every one. He wants it to all add up in his head and he wants to do the adding. And should someone step outside his ciphers, the circle his mind has drawn, his trust evaporates.

Geoffrey Wood

#31. True Prayer is the work of relationship, where He moves them from mere information about Him to a one-on-one experience with Him, so that now when they talk about "knowing God," they mean more than, "I understand what you're saying about God," but also, "It fits my experience of Him.

Geoffrey Wood

#32. In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Tom C. Clark