Religious Quotes

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

- Steven Weinberg

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

- Martin Luther

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

- Mark Twain

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

- Martin Luther

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

- Abraham Lincoln

It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.

- Voltaire

Sabr is not remaining quiet and allowing anger to build up inside you. Sabr is to talk about what's bothering you without losing control of your emotions.

- Nouman Ali Khan

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

- Dwight L. Moody

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

- Mahatma Gandhi

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.

- Frank Zappa

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

When you find yourself in a position to help someone, be happy because Allah is answering that person’s prayer through you.

- Nouman Ali Khan

Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.

- Unknown

Sometimes it seem like to tell the truth today is to run the risk of being killed. But if I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer.

- John Calvin

What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

- Hafez

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

- Martin Luther

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

- Ahmed Deedat

Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all times, we must teach tolerance and denounce racism, anti-Semitism and all ethnic or religious bigotry wherever they exist as unacceptable evils. We have no place for haters in America -- none, whatsoever.

- Ronald Reagan

Once a ruler becomes religious, it becomes impossible for you to debate with him. Once someone rules in the name of religion, your lives become hell.

- Muammar al-Gaddafi

So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

- Voltaire

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

- Francis of Assisi

It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity.

- Ellen G. White

Prayer is powerful beyond limits when we turn to the Immaculata who is queen even of God's heart.

- Maximilian Kolbe

God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.

- David Livingstone

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

- John Calvin

May Allah steal from you All that steals you from Him.

- Rabia Basri

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

- Periyar E. V. Ramasamy

For Jesus Christ I am prepared to suffer still more.

- Maximilian Kolbe

How many of us would be able to overcome our desires and resist the temptation of sin? How many of us even lower our gaze when we look upon something that we are not supposed to? The real prisoner is the one whose heart has been kept away from remembering his Lord, and the real captive is the one who has been captivated by his whims and desires.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

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

- John Adams

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

- Paula White

Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.

- Unknown

We always find that those who walked closest to Christ were those who had to bear the greatest trials.

- Teresa of Avila

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

- Karl Marx

Whenever anything disagreeable or displeasing happens to you, remember Christ crucified and be silent.

- John of the Cross

Whether one is rich or poor, educated or illiterate, religious or nonbelieving, man or woman, black, white, or brown, we are all the same. Physically, emotionally, and mentally, we are all equal. We all share basic needs for food, shelter, safety, and love. We all aspire to happiness and we all shun suffering. Each of us has hopes, worries, fears, and dreams. Each of us wants the best for our family and loved ones. We all experience pain when we suffer loss and joy when we achieve what we seek. On this fundamental level, religion, ethnicity, culture, and language make no difference.

- Dalai Lama

The Holy Spirit is a healing spirit. When the Holy Spirit is present, anything is possible.

- Reinhard Bonnke

When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life.

- Sigmund Freud

You know what the Quran teaches me? The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Firaun) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrahim). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.

- Nouman Ali Khan

A little knowledge and an over-abundance of zeal always tends to be harmful. In the area involving religious truths, it can be disastrous.

- Kathryn Kuhlman

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

- Ibn Taymiyyah

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

- Joyce Meyer

Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you're trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.

- Noam Chomsky

Hinduism is not just a faith. It is the union of reason and intuition that can not be defined but is only to be experienced. Evil and error are not ultimate. There is no Hell, for that means there is a place where God is not, and there are sins which exceed his love.

- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

We have power... Our power isn’t in a political system, or a religious system, or in an economic system, or in a military system; these are authoritarian systems... they have power... but it’s not reality. The power of our intelligence, individually or collectively IS the power; this is the power that any industrial ruling class truly fears: clear coherent human beings.

- John Trudell

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?

- Epicurus

A friend cannot be considered a friend until he is tested in three occasions: in timeof need, behind your back, and after your death.

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

- Nouman Ali Khan