Quotes about religious
religious humor men
The Devil...clutched hold of the miserable young man...and flew off with him through the ceiling, since which time nothing has been heard of him. Martin Luther
religious real lying
The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil... Martin Luther
religious humor devil
The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away. Martin Luther
religious humor suffering
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells. Martin Luther
religious humor sweat
Many sweat to reconcile St Paul and St James, but in vain. 'Faith justifies' and 'faith does not justify' contradict each other flatly. If any one can harmonize them I will give him my doctor's hood and let him call me a fool. Martin Luther
religious humor justice
God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed. Martin Luther
religious failure men
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions. Martin Luther
religious humor pope
I feel much freer now that I am certain the pope is the Antichrist. Martin Luther
religious humor air
We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons... Martin Luther
religious lying eye
Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer selfglory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God and men are practiced most maliciously and veheming his eyes on them. Martin Luther
religious done praying
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you. Martin Luther
religious believe views
If you're involved with imagination and the creative process, it's not such a difficult thing to believe in a God. But I'm not involved in any religions, and I've never intended to make religious records or records that preach some kind of point of view. Nick Cave
religious jesus powerful
I always tell our community that we should attract the people Jesus attracted and frustrate the people Jesus frustrated. It's certainly never our goal to frustrate, but it is worth noting that the people who were constantly agitated were the self-righteous, religious elite, the rich, and the powerful. But the people who were fascinated by him, by his love and grace, were folks who were already wounded and ostracized — folks who didn't have much to lose, who already knew full well that they were broken and needed a Savior. Shane Claiborne
religious our-world creating
Christianity can be built around isolating ourselves from evildoers and sinners, creating a community of religious piety and moral purity. That’s the Christianity I grew up with. Christianity can also be built around joining with the broken sinners and evildoers of our world crying out to God, groaning for grace. That’s the Christianity I have fallen in love with. Shane Claiborne
religious prayer fall
The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. Sean Durkin
religious thinking people
I'm very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people - sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn't that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons. Mick Jagger
religious thinking views
I think the thing that I admire about Rick Santorum is that he hasn't backed down or apologized one bit for his personal religious views, for standing up for social conservative values. Michelle Malkin
religious joy religion
With faith and love God's given, springing from the hope we know. We will pray the joy you'll live in, is the strength that now you show. Michael W. Smith
religious believe grateful
What does God mean to me? I guess I was made the way I am for some reason, and I've been able to find the talent I have, and I've been able to use it, so I'm grateful for that. I believe in God; [but] I'm not saying I'm highly religious. Michael Phelps
religious believe i-believe
I believe in God; I'm not saying I'm highly religious. Michael Phelps
religious thinking have-faith
If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion. Michael Pitt
religious goal community
Because religious institutions are not afraid to talk about love as a goal, they are likely to be more effective at providing community services. Michael Lerner
religious inspiration church
From you we have learned what we, at least, value, to separate Church and State; and from you we gather inspiration at all times in our devotion to learning, to religious liberty, and to individual and National freedom. Seth Low
religious years two
I'm not a fatalist. I'm not a religious person. I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time. Seth MacFarlane
religious character facts
The nicest characters in A Week in December are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them. Sebastian Faulks
religious writing legs
I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on." Tom Courtenay
religious rights special
The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities. Tom Allen
religious data way
You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological. Slavoj Zizek
religious doe different
[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position. Slavoj Zizek
religious spirit holy
I guess I'm a Holy Spirit maniac. I'm not a religious maniac. I love religion, but I don't like it. Sinead O'Connor
religious religious-music needs
God needs to get rescued from religious music. Sinead O'Connor
religious laughter two
Start and finish your day with laughter, and you will see, by and by, in between these two more and more laughter starts happening. And the more laughing you become, the more religious. Rajneesh
religious creating secret
This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood. Rajneesh