Religious Work Quotes

#1. Religious work is one of the best ways to keep from facing your reality if you are Christian, if you are using it to calm the pain, because that it what all addictions are, attempts to cover the pain of this spiritual disease.

Keith Miller

#2. Religious work can be done by natural men without the gifts of the Spirit, and it can be done well and skillfully.

A.W. Tozer

#3. Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting & in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously & continuously a plan for self-development & growth.

David J. Schwartz

#4. Your nakedness is the work of God the Creator. Let men admire it--and grow religious between your sheets.

Elspeth Marr

#5. Democratic elections usually work only within populations that have some prior common bond, such as shared religious beliefs or national myths. They are a method to settle disagreements among people who already agree on the basics.

Yuval Noah Harari

#6. When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.

Adam Rapp

#7. If I am an artist, I have a vocation. As one drawn to a lover or called to a religious mission, I go to my work - my writing - because it is essential to my happiness.

Pat Schneider

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Petra Hermans

#9. I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.

John D. Rockefeller

#10. I was constantly around all those religious images and to me, angels exist. I feel we were definitely guided and helped and I'm always referring to them in my work.

Melissa Etheridge

#11. There is in my work a very strong religious foreground and background. In the later work some of that tends to diminish, but it's certainly present in the early work.

Chaim Potok

#12. I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

Steven Levitan

#13. My poor family. I try to protect them from my work. My parents are very religious, and my brother and sister are very normal. We have an understanding, I think, that what I do isn't quite down their alley.

Alissa Nutting

#14. All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.

Swami Vivekananda

#15. There are always forces at work in a society, which are really forces of censorship - either religious bodies or zealots who are always putting pressure on things, whether it's books or art or film.

John Boorman

#16. Living a Christian life is not equivalent to living a religious one

Sunday Adelaja

#17. True religion must raise to work at the bar and the bench, on the couch and on the streets, in the cottage of the poor man and in the penthouse of the entrepreneur, with the fisherman that is catching fish and with the students that are studying.

Abhijit Naskar

#18. We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology

James Luther Adams

#19. Especially now when views are becoming more polarized, we must work to understand each other across political, religious and national boundaries.

Jane Goodall

#20. Those who believe (in the Qur'an), and those who follow the Jewish (scriptures), and the Christians and the Sabians - any who believe in Allah and the Last Day, and work righteousness, shall have their reward with their Lord; on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

#21. Keep focusing on God and all things will work out.

Ray S. Jones

#22. We are all affected by the time we are born into, and of course that feeds into your work. Society is based on storytelling - religious myths, opera, film - and 1968 was always seen as a time of rupture and fragmentation. I have always been interested in those words.

Doug Aitken

#23. He quickly responded, "A person with a religious spirit is one who uses My Word to execute his own will!" In other words, it is when we take what the Lord has said and work our own desires into it.

John Bevere

#24. Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.

David Jeremiah

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

Sunday Adelaja

#26. The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no means always true.

John Warwick Montgomery

#27. Work is life for me, it is the only point of life-and with it there is almost religious belief that service is everything.

Laurence Olivier

#28. God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously ... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

Martin Luther

#29. Religious freedom should work two ways: we should be free to practice the religion of our choice, but we must also be free from having someone else's religion practiced on us.

John Irving

#30. I think it's not particularly necessary to lead a religious life. People progress just as well in music, or art, or math or science or gardening or whatever. It all seems to work as well and the process is good.

Jim Henson

#31. reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural

Ambrose Bierce

#32. A religious approach to marriage is the idea that if we work hard enough at something, we can earn the acceptance, approval, and life we think we deserve because of our obedient performance.

Tullian Tchividjian

#33. There is nothing - not any religious or secular body of work - that comes close to the Bible in forming the moral bases of Western civilization and therefore of nearly all moral progress in the world.

Dennis Prager

#34. Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results.

Hossein Malek-Afzali

#35. I first moved to Denver to work with a group called YWAM, 'Youth With a Mission.' I was a kid - I was 18 - and did some work with homeless people. Really, trying to convert people is sort of an awful position to find yourself in, so I quickly, on my own, grew out of religious ideas.

Nathaniel Rateliff

#36. The sword of the Spirit has been muffled up and decked out with flowers and ribbons, author writes, conveying the sentiments of a Congregationist minister on men's ceding of moral and religious instruction and correction as women's work.

Nancy Pearcey

#37. But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious - pray.

Ridgely Torrence

#38. Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

Will Barnet

#39. Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

Narendra Modi

#40. It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs

George Orwell

#41. I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

Louise Bourgeois

#42. I'm often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don't have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

Robin Sacredfire

#43. Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

Martin Luther

#44. Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

Doris Egan

#45. Not even on the most distorted and contracted theory of good which ever was framed by religious or philosophical fanaticism, can the government of Nature be made to resemble the work of a being at once good and omnipotent.

John Stuart Mill

#46. We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)

Karen Armstrong

#47. The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

Carl Sagan

#48. A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

Albert Einstein

#49. Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Mary Daly

#50. Religious superstitions more than all other influences put together cripple & enslave woman, but so long as women themselves do not see it & hug their chains, we have a great educational work to do ...

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#51. We'll limit in all ways the work of religious faiths which are foreign to us.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#52. My parents were very religious. My mother came from Co Donegal to work in the shirt factory in Derry when she met my father.

Martin McGuinness

#53. I want Infosys to be a company which is globally respected and in where people belonging to different nationalities, races and religious beliefs will work with intense competition but utmost courtesy, dignity and co-operation in adding greater value to our stakeholders day after day.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

#54. I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've seen religion used as a weapon, and I'm putting all weapons down.

Zak Ebrahim

#55. You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.

Jack Kevorkian

#56. The basis of all scientific work is the conviction that the world is an ordered and comprehensive entity, which is a religious sentiment. My religious feeling is a humble amazement at the order revealed in the small patch of reality to which our feeble intelligence is equal.

Albert Einstein

#57. Unless you're in an early seventies-era Eagles cover band, a founding member of a religious cult, or sleeping under a bridge in Seattle, lose the beard and get a haircut. Power doesn't have time for any form of hirsute hipster self expression.

Ari Gold

#58. You must teach yourself how to eat less, but with discernment, insofar as your work allows. The measure of temperance should be such that after lunch you want to pray.

Silouan The Athonite

#59. God doesn't work through us because we're flawless; rather, He works through us in spite of our imperfections.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#60. As you help men to grow, as you work for peace, understanding and good will, your influence will merge, with the good influences of men of every age, into the eternal golden stream of God's goodness.

Wilferd Peterson

#61. I believe in religious liberty. I believe in freedom of speech. I believe in working hard and playing by the rules. I'm showing up for work tomorrow.

William J. Clinton

#62. Jesus built a ship to sing a song to, it sails the rivers and it sails the tide. Some of my friends don't know who they belong to, some can't get a single thing to work inside.

Gram Parsons

#63. He is always doing something
the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

Elisabeth Elliot

#64. And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

Neale Donald Walsch

#65. I cannot think why we should be astonished at all the evils which exist in the Church, when those who ought to be models on which all may pattern their virtues are annulling the work wrought in the religious Orders by the spirit of the saints of old.

Teresa Of Avila

#66. Religious teachings and teachers have conditioned us to think of faith as a magic catalyst that makes God work for us. In no way does faith make God work nor does it release some kind of miracle power. Faith simply tunes into and turns on the divine flow that has always been present

Eric Butterworth

#67. A religious person without no job is a dead person. (Iigbagbo ti koni ise oku ni. - Yoruba proverb)

Habeeb Akande

#68. I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol P. Christ

#69. I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point, but that's the work of God.

Rodney King

#70. It is our job to listen to God and let Him tell us what is going on and what we are to do about it - leaving the rest to Him to work out according to His knowledge and will, not ours.

Joyce Meyer

#71. Frankly, I'm not religious, but I believe in the cause of humanity - doing good work.

Sukhwinder Singh

#72. Cop-out excuses and catch-phrase dismissals can only work so long before the holes in the religious argument cannot be ignored any longer.

Steve Dustcircle

#73. But why should a religious person be interested in a work like Heidegger's that many regard as the epitome of nihilism? For a start, because Heidegger forces us in a way that few philosophers do to really think through the seriousness and all-encompassing nature of our mortality.

George Pattison

#74. The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

Mahatma Gandhi

#75. I think it's a mother's dream come true to see it work out that way. Not just the mother, but certainly parents, to know that their children have a very solid moral foundation and religious foundation.

Erika Slezak

#76. In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

Elizabeth Bowen

#77. There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.

Zac Goldsmith

#78. Work miracles by setting a good example. Others will catch your spirit! The power of a good example is the greatest miracle-working power of all.

Wilferd Peterson

#79. Did he really choose Tammy to do his work?

Frank Zappa

#80. Here on earth, God's work must surely be our own.

John F. Kennedy

#81. I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.

Barney Frank

#82. Anyone familiar with my work knows that I am extremely critical of all religious faiths.

Sam Harris

#83. Atheists tend to read only each other's books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting.

Edward Feser

#84. Let's downplay religion and lets begin to work hard on who God wants us to become.

Sunday Adelaja

#85. I want to be tolerant of other people's beliefs. I have wonderful friends who are religious, and I don't want to say that they're dimwits. They should certainly be able to pursue what works for them. I'm just saying that it doesn't work for me and I don't want to pretend that it does.

George Meyer

#86. The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there.

Pope Francis

#87. Calling a work of sufficient literary power either religious or secular is a political decision, not an aesthetic one.

Harold Bloom

#88. I am not the least bit religious, but at least I stick up for the good work of religion and the cascade of benefits that come from religion.

Greg Gutfeld

#89. However, intention needn't enter in, and if a reader sees things in a religious way, and the work is dogmatically acceptable, then I don't see why it should not be interpreted in that way, as well as in others.

James Schuyler

#90. I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience ... Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

Robert Fulghum

#91. I think that spirituality is important for all people to develop. I don't mean there necessarily has to be a religious aspect to spirituality. Some people are spiritual in a religious way, other people are spiritual in their work and in their art and in their treatment of other people.

Assata Shakur

#92. I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't.

Jim Wallis

#93. He was a religious kid, and the goldsmith's trade turned him off. He spent all day melting old baubles down to make new ones - and he knew his own work was going to suffer the same fate. Everything he believed told him: This is not important. There is no gold in the city of God.

Robin Sloan

#94. The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#95. I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection.

John F. Kennedy

#96. I have always felt that my work is religious, not sacrilegious.

Andres Serrano

#97. Do not believe anything because it is said by an authority, or if it is said to come from angels, or from Gods, or from an inspired source. Believe it only if you have explored it in your own heart and mind and body and found it to be true. Work out your own path, through diligence.

Gautama Buddha

#98. My stories have a deep spiritual core because I have a deep desire to understand things of the spirit, but yet I don't think I've written these stories from any kind of specific religious agenda because I don't think that would work.

Sue Monk Kidd

#99. Art class was like a religious ceremony to me. I would wash my hands carefully before touching paper or pencils. The instruments of work were sacred objects to me.

Joan Miro

#100. It is not what we do for God that He counts worthy, but the work we let Him do in us.

Oswals Chambers