Religion Quotes

"Man proposes, but God disposes."

Thomas à Kempis

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

Dorothy Day

"Everybody can be great because anybody can serve."

"Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality."

Albert Schweitzer

"Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy."

Abraham Joshua Heschel

"The whole world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to fear at all."

Rabbi Nachman of Breslov

"The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference."

Jonathan Sacks

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray."

"People are of two kinds: either your brother in faith or your equal in humanity."

Ali ibn Abi Talib

"Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence and soul."

Saadi

"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."

"Because you are alive, everything is possible."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?"

Dōgen

"Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness."

Zhuangzi

"To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice."

Confucius

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

"God is the immanent, and not the transient, cause of all things."

Baruch Spinoza

"Everything that lives is holy."

William Blake

"Some keep the Sabbath going to Church – I keep it, staying at Home – With a Bobolink for a Chorister – And an Orchard, for a Dome."

Emily Dickinson

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."

John Muir

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

Albert Einstein

"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."

Carl Sagan

"Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."

George Washington

"He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open."