Religious Quotes

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Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief j

Sometimes events that lead us bereft of anything but grief just happen for no reason other than happenstance--a car turns left instead of right, a train is missed, a call comes too late--and the real test of our humanness is whether, in light of that knowledge, we are ever able to recover. When we again find our way despite the inability to manufacture a deeper meaning in our suffering, that I think is when God smiles upon us, proud of the strength of his creation.

Strength Inspirational Sacrifice Religious Strength Through Adversity

Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those

Even religious people are vulnerable to this longing. Those who belong to communities of faith have acquired a certain patience with what is sometimes called organized religion. They have learned to forgive themselves. They do not expect their institutions to stand in for God, and they are happy to use inherited maps for some of life's journeys. They do not need to walk off every cliff all by themselves. Yet they too can harbor the sense that there is more to life that they are being shown. Where is the secret hidden? Who has the key to the treasure box of More?

Barbara Brown Taylor

Inspirational Spiritual Religious More

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easil

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily.

Inspirational Religious Sainthood

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is

When everyone drowns and I'm the only one to escape, God is protecting me. When everyone else is saved and I'm the only one to drown, God is protecting me then too.

Nikos Kazantzakis

Inspirational Religious

The more that science unravels about the wonder of life and

The more that science unravels about the wonder of life and the universe, the more i am in are of it. the beauty and wonder of the universe and all that surrounds us offers proof of God. I like that idea

Inspirational Spiritual Religious

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Po

Have thine own way, Lord! Have thine own way!Thou art the Potter and I am the clay.

Inspirational Religious Hymnal

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of huma

It is my strong conviction that a realist conception of human nature should be made a servant of an ethic of progressive justice and should not be made into a bastion of conservatism, particularly a conservatism which defends unjust privileges.

Reinhold Niebuhr

Inspirational Political Philosophy Religious

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we w

We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.

Richard G. Scott

Inspirational Self Determination Self Improvement Religious

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to

We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love.

Inspirational Religious

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with

Knowing life's purpose would invest everything one did with meaning.

Kentetsu Takamori

Inspirational Religious Buddhism

Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His stro

Keep striving, for God gives His hardest battles to His strongest soldiers.

God Motivational Inspirational Religious

No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag ca

No religion with a universal message . . . under one flag can even momentarily entertain the idea of employing force to spread its message. Swords can win territories, but not hearts. Force can bend heads, but not minds.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad

Inspirational Religious

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic a

We need to shed our unearthly and nonsocial and idealistic and romantic and uber-spiritual visions of kingdom and get back to what Jesus meant. By kingdom, Jesus means: God's Dream Society on earth, spreading out from the land of Israel to encompass the whole world.

Hope Religion Inspirational Justice Religious Christian Discipleship

Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and

Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and our ability to serve and love and laugh and enjoy life do not depend on whether we are married or single. If we look to Christ for answers, He will give them. It also follows that with our increased devotion and understanding of Him, the happier and more complete we will become and the more we will comprehend our true worth in the sight of God.

Kristen McMain Oaks

Inspirational Religious Way To Be Lds Uplifting

The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to

The choice for devoted Latter-day Saint women is not just to simply go forward and try to be happy and create a fulfilling life. As women of covenant our goal is to go forward and develop stron testimonies and nurturing and caring hearts that will prepare us for our roles as mothers in eternity. With that end in mind, I determined to go on happily, to become 'anxiously engaged in a good cause' (D

Kristen McMain Oaks

Inspirational Religious Way To Be Lds Uplifting

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul an

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

Elisabeth Elliot

Inspirational Religious

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey

Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.

Inspirational Religious Christian

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to

One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

Science People Religious Accomplishment

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary peop

God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.

Neal A. Maxwell

Inspirational Religious

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in wh

The sacred is discovered in what moves and touches us, in what makes us tremble.

Inspirational Spiritual Religious