Religion Quotes

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's there are few."

Shunryu Suzuki

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

Alan Watts

"Silence in the face of evil is itself evil."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened."

Billy Graham

"Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence."

Henri Nouwen

"Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed."

Francis de Sales

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

John Wesley

"Faith is the highest passion in a human being."

Søren Kierkegaard

"Faith is the force of life."

Leo Tolstoy

"The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."

"Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."

Victor Hugo

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side."

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."

"All real living is meeting."

Martin Buber

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference."

Elie Wiesel

"Anticipate charity by preventing poverty."

Maimonides

"Religion is not a departmental affair; it is neither mere thought, nor mere feeling, nor mere action; it is an expression of the whole man."

Muhammad Iqbal

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

Kahlil Gibran

"God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open."

Hazrat Inayat Khan

"Live and let live."

Mahavira

"Peace comes within the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe."

Black Elk

"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him."

"Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible."

William James

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"I believe that God is in me as the sun is in the colour and fragrance of a flower."