Religious Text Quotes

#1. Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise." Book of Arda Viraf (circa 6th century) ZOROASTRIAN RELIGIOUS TEXT

Rhonda Byrne

#2. Even in this secular country, the threat posed by religious fundamentalists is never very far away. Every major religious text exhorts the same principles - that of unyielding obedience to a supernatural being, and renunciation of the intellect and personal aspirations.

Andrew Bernstein

#3. I learn as much from a turtle as from a religious text.

Dalai Lama

#4. Science and technology are the engines of prosperity. Of course, one is free to ignore science and technology, but only at your peril. The world does not stand still because you are reading a religious text. If you do not master the latest in science and technology, then your competitors will.

Michio Kaku

#5. Lila backed away toward the curtain. "Do you just... stand here until I need you?"
The woman smiled and dug a volume from a pocket. "I have a book."
"Let me guess, a religious text?"
"Actually," said Ister, perching on the low couch, "it's about pirates."
Lila smiled.

V.E Schwab

#6. You can point to the alleged miracles of the Bible, or any other religious text, but they are nothing but old stories fabricated by man and then exaggerated over time.

Dan Brown

#7. Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

Nathan Myhrvold

#8. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero. Especially

Mia Sheridan

#9. Suffering is basically the mind's refusal to accept reality as it is.

Marcus Thomas

#10. Family's always first. God and family, and I go from there.

Tameka Cottle

#11. Growing up as a little kid, I wasn't always this size. I got picked on a lot.

Terrell Owens

#12. I don't dwell in the past, I just can't forget what's passed.

Nigar Siddiqui

#13. Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

Christopher Hitchens

#14. He cries behind his wall, I think, and no one knows, not even he. And no one will ever know, and in the end he'll always be alone in smiling pain.

George R R Martin

#15. The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders' political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs.

Ron Paul

#16. Adversities provide opportunities for introspection.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

#17. I'm a much better mother at 46 ... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

Halle Berry

#18. The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.

William Butler Yeats

#19. Have you considered that the Bible, like all religious doctrine, may be allegorical and symbolic, to direct us toward one holy entity of love, as opposed to a simplistic litiginous text to direct the behavior of human beings?

Russell Brand

#20. In every ancient religious and sacred text, faith is a verb; a thing to be demonstrated. It is in modern days that we have diluted faith from an act to a philosophy.

Steve Maraboli

#21. The thoughts that occur to me while I'm running are like clouds in the sky. Clouds of all different sizes. They come and they go, while the sky remains the same sky always. The clouds are mere guests in the sky that pass away and vanish, leaving behind the sky.

Haruki Murakami

#22. I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

Nicholas Lea

#23. There is not one text reference to characteristic Protestant religious life in these books ... The dominant theme is the denial of religion as an actual part of American life.

Paul Vitz

#24. Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

Noah Webster

#25. We've always had a dark atmosphere to our performances, so it sort of developed along those ways.

Kenny Hickey

#26. That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

Charles Tupper

#27. With every year that passes, the more we have to be careful not to forget the causes and consequences of the Great Recession.

Sherrod Brown

#28. Nothing is so awkward as a demonstration of humanity by the enemy.

Kobo Abe