Spiritual Quotes About Character & Perspective – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.

Joseph Smith, Jr.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.

Yakov Smirnoff

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Richard Dawkins

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Jesus Christ

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Christopher Lasch

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

William Dean Howells

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

Saint Augustine

There is one knows not what sweet mystery about this sea, whose gently awful stirrings seem to speak of some hidden soul beneath.

Herman Melville

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Muhammad Iqbal

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Al Gore

God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Kim Campbell

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya

I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Honore de Balzac

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

Dennis Prager

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

Edward Bond

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Dalai Lama

The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I am utterly struck how, 300 years after his execution, Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Peter Jennings

What does God the Father look like? Although I've never seen Him, I believe - as with the Holy Spirit - He looks like Jesus looked on earth.

Benny Hinn

Intuition is the very force or activity of the soul in its experience through whatever has been the experience of the soul itself.

Henry Reed

I call religion a natural authority, but it has usually been conceived as a supernatural authority.

Herbert Read

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

George Sand

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

Ella Maillart

A child's spirit is like a child, you can never catch it by running after it; you must stand still, and, for love, it will soon itself come back.

Arthur Miller

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter - often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter - in the eye.

Charlotte Bronte

The religion of the Indian is the last thing about him that the man of another race will ever understand.

Charles Eastman

The root of the evil is not the construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.

Ludwig von Mises

Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air.

Friedrich Schiller

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

Marcus Aurelius

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

James A. Garfield

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

George Whitefield

Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion again.

Lionel Blue

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Evelyn Underhill