Religion Quotes - Page 36

Only through Absolution will you reach the Absolute.

Toni Petrinovich

God is forgiving or we would not still be walking this world. But to be moral is not to need his divine forgiveness, I think.

How can a God who said, “Love your enemies” spend so much time killing His own?

To me, my Christian faith is all about being held, comforted, forgiven, strengthened, and loved--yet somehow that message gets lost on most of us, and we tend only to remember the religious nutters or the God of endless school assemblies. This is no one's fault, it is just life. Our job is to stay open and gentle, so we can hear the knocking on the door of our heart when it comes. The irony is that I never meet anyone who doesn't want to be loved or held or forgiven. Yet I meet a lot of folk who hate religion. And I so sympathize. But so did Jesus. In fact, He didn't just sympathize, He went much further. It seems more like this Jesus came to destroy religion and to bring life.

The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love.

I am still not good enough. I am still not whole enough. I am still not pure enough. I am still weakness and sharp edges and broken, but He is good and pure and whole, all that I strive for but am not. I wake up every morning and I sit in silence and I choose to believe. I may speak. I may not. I let Him wrap up all my broken in to His grace. He takes me imperfect. This is the great mystery I never knew.

Do unto others…’ is a good rule of thumb. I live by that. Forgiveness is probably the greatest virtue there is. But that’s exactly what it is - a virtue. Not just a Christian virtue. No one owns being good. I’m good. I just don’t believe I’ll be rewarded for it in heaven. My reward is here and now. It’s knowing that I try to do the right thing. That I lived a good life. And that’s where spirituality really lost its way. When it became a stick to beat people with. ‘Do this or you’ll burn in hell.’ You won’t burn in hell. But be nice anyway.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

You’ve been tested.’ He advised me to try and ‘forgive and pardon, and this way seek to become beloved by God’ without my forgiveness being tied to the one who wronged me. ‘This is the Divine remedy,’ he emphasised, ‘remind your ego when it resists. Don’t you love for God to forgive you on the day, too?’ Reflecting on what the Shaykh said, his advice undid a knot in my heart and I resolved to work on my forgiveness purely for the sake of God. The Shaykh also recommended: ‘Be careful about what you pray for in the future.’ He promised to pray for me personally, asking God to send me a Muslim husband who would value and cherish me for who I am. Insha’ Allah!

Kristiane Backer

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Jesus always seems to be pairing God's forgiveness of us with our forgiveness of others. But why? Growing up, I thought it was a way of guilting us into forgiving others, like Jesus was saying, Hey, I died for you and you can't even be nice to your little brother? As though God can get us to do the right thing if God can just make us feel bad about how much we owe God. But that is not the God I see in Jesus Christ. That is a manipulative mother.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

The Lord teaches forgiveness, but some things are unforgivable.

Practice mercy and forgiveness throughout as a lesson that symbolizes the love shown through his crucifixion.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

No woman will be licensed to preach in the Louisiana Presbytery as long as I'm a member of it!

Reverend John Clampitt

Give people the chance to change their heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita

She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.

Three great actions: To do what is right, To love mercy, and To walk humbly with Yahweh.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness has no deadline.

God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music.

Jennifer Sodini

The living has a great hope, we have life to bounce back from any difficulty. The dead had no hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Creation of mankind, the power of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

When you ask, expect the answer.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Make every effort to hear directly from God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Daily seek the divine presence of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all beautiful creation of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours.

Lailah Gifty Akita

A blessed hope, a blessed life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Trust in God, the dependence on supernatural powers!

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never be afraid to travel on a new path.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Spirituality is not a religion or a trend—it is a lifestyle. It is a lifestyle of awareness that combines the understanding of faith, body, mind, and soul, allowing us to live modern-day enlightened lives in small and big ways.

While following religion, where ‘any thing’ is required, they are all called ‘relative’ paths.

Where slightest of conflict exists, there is neither God nor Religion.

Whole world is not looking for religion, it is looking for its own safe side.

That what keeps us supported is dharma (religion).

Where there is religion (religious following), there are no worries and where there are worries, there is no religion there.

Love pouring out of you is evidence of God pouring into you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Fear ends where love begins.

Matshona Dhliwayo

When God looks in the mirror He sees love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

God cannot resist love for He cannot resist Himself.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature.

Matshona Dhiliwayo

Each time a star twinkles, God is winking at the universe.

Matshona Dhiliwayo

Love is God's shadow as He strolls through the universe.

Matshona Dhliwayo

If God had a flower for each moment He thought of you, the whole universe would be a garden.

Matshona Dhliwayo

In temples you find religion, but in hearts you find God.

Matshona Dhliwayo

Faith can move mountains, Love can move man.

Alin Sav

The universe is God's son.

Dejan Stojanovic

Holy books are an insult to a God with good intentions.

Dejan Stojanovic

Snatch religion back from the clerics and literature from the critics.

This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being.

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty—or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne’s thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or ‘Eurocentric’; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the ‘radical’; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly ‘committ

Christopher Hitchens

It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.

The more you believe, the more you doubt. The more you doubt, the more you ask questions. Knowing that questions left unanswered is the best proof for your belief.

Sandra Chami Kassis

That was the trouble with formulating a system: what could you do but repeat it?

Peter Washington

Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.

John Stuart Mill

What people really believe doesn't feel like a BELIEF, it feels like the way the world IS.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Science is agnostic when it comes to God - not atheistic, as some people prefer to read that laden word wrongly - just agnostic.

You can tell people the truth, but they'll never believe until the event. Until it's too late. In the meantime, the truth will just piss them off and get you in a lot of trouble

Chuck Palahniuk

Their position seems to be that their God is so great he doesn't even have to exist.

I love Religion it's the cheapest place to buy Guilt, Fear,Sin and Doubt

Stanley Victor Paskavich

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