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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
I am myself a dissenter from all known religions, and I hope that every kind of religious belief will die out.
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.
Don't worry about tomorrow, just be real good today. The Lord is right beside you, he'll guide you all the way.
There are moral religious people and moral secular people, immoral religious people and immoral secular people.
We have lobbed verses of Scripture, like hand grenades, into the camps of others, convinced we only have truth.
God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
No man can be a sound lawyer in this land who is not well read in the ethics of Moses and the virtues of Jesus.
To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction.
The greater our present trials, the louder will our future songs be, and the more intense our joyful gratitude.
The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
No one can pray and worry at the same time. When we worry, we aren't praying. When we pray, we aren't worrying.
Have we come to the point where it is now considered a secular blasphemy to acknowledge the name of God at all?
Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
The salvation of birds and beasts, oneself included - this is the object of Shakyamuni's religious austerities.
I abandoned my religious teachings after I read the Bible twice - cover to cover. It took me a couple of years.
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
Spending time in a church does not make you religious, any more than spending time in a garage makes you a car.
I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
Our prayer cannot be reduced to an hour on Sundays. It is important to have a daily relationship with the Lord.
The victorious Christian neither exalts nor downgrades himself. His interests have shifted from self to Christ.
God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.
Conservatives should be adamant about the need for the reappearance of Judeo-Christianity in the public square.
Of all religious systems, Islam alone declares that individual perfection is possible in our earthly existence.
What a joy to remember that she is our Mother! Since she loves us and knows our weakness, what have we to fear?
God does not ask for 'religious' art or 'Catholic' art. The art he wants for himself is Art, with all its teeth
To live your life without expectation-without the need for specific results-that is freedom. That is Godliness.
When God wants to have mercy on someone, He inspires someone else to pray for him, and He helps in this prayer.
Religious people, in the name of the Constitution, are increasingly being shoved to the back of the social bus.
When everbody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Go courageously to God, along the way He has traced out for you, steadfastly embracing the means He offers you.
Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face to face with the Lord himself. Don't deify common sense.
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.
As soon as I came to believe there was a God, I understood that I could not do otherwise than live only for him.
After all, I'm religious, and if my mother knew I was performing in the nude, she would have had a heart attack.
The purpose of good works isn't to change us or save us; rather, it's the demonstration of the change within us.
A solemn and religious regard to spiritual and eternal things is an indispensable element of all true greatness.
I think it's a bill that puts a high priority on religious freedom and recognizes that as a part of the balance.
I was raised in a religious environment, and my wife is one of the more religious people that I have ever known.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.
He's a Catholic, a Hindy, an atheist, a Chein, a Buddhist, a Baptist and a Jew, and he knows, he shouldn't kill.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
Do not look at the faults of what others have done or not done; observe what you yourself have done or not done.