Cultivate the technique of seeing all problems as opportunities. Opportunities to...be, and decide, Who You Really Are.

The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known.

I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.

Each morning I face her window and pray that our love can be, cause that brownstone house where my baby lives is Mecca.

If we are to receive the blessings God wants to bestow upon us, we must be willing to give Him the messes in our lives.

Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.

The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.

Enlightenment is not meant to be an object of religious faith. It is an evolutionary goal, something we want to become.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people.

See? This is why I'm not religious. I couldn't possibly keep my mouth shut long enough to get along with everyone else.

Atheists have just as much of a right to the public discourse as any ... people of any religious faith in this country.

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

As a matter of history great developments in art have often been remarkably separate from religious motivation and use.

Any religious organization should be allowed to hire based on their religious preference- but not with federal dollars.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

I've always been a religious person, and I try to think that every disappointment might just be a blessing in disguise.

I began to see my life and each breath I am given as a living prayer to God and a way to pray for others for our world.

Everything that God brings into our life is directed to one purpose: that we might be conformed to the image of Christ.

Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Darwinism has become our culture's official creation myth, protected by a priesthood as dogmatic as any religious curia.

Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The Lord was pleased to strengthen us, and remove all fear from us, and disposed our hearts to be as useful as possible.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Humanity has understood nothing. Religious, tribal, national wars continue. The world continues to be in a sea of blood.

When I was 18, I suddenly became very, very religious. I became an evangelical Christian; I was celibate for five years.

When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation.

The Church has lost a great religious poet in me; but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.

I consider myself a religious person, but when it comes to God and faith, I don't know. I guess that means I'm agnostic.

Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.

Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.

You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

There are many religious points of view where the conservation of the world is just as important as it is to scientists.

Nowhere have the forces of intolerance been displayed less tolerantly than in the area of religious speech and practice.

Earth is so thick with divine possibility that it is a wonder we can walk anywhere without cracking our shins on altars.

We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected.

Only he is a truly ethical, a truly human being, who has the courage to see through his own religious feelings and needs.

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves!

I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

If you desire to please God with the decision you make and afterward it proves to be a mistake, it’s an error not an end.

The church is not primarily a political organisation. We're a religious organisation. There's a much greater opportunity.

If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.

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