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 political islam
Hamas murders not only Israelis, but also Palestinians whose political stance is different from that which its group promotes; that is, its radical religious outlook in which Islam is the solution to the world's problems. Mosab Hassan Yousef
religious believe intellectual
I suspect that most of the individuals who have religious faith are content with blind faith. They feel no obligation to understand what they believe. They may even wish not to have their beliefs disturbed by thought. But if God in whom they believe created them with intellectual and rational powers, that imposes upon them the duty to try to understand the creed of their religion. Not to do so is to verge on superstition. Mortimer Adler
religious southern baptists
My family is still very Southern Baptist, and they're religious. Missi Pyle
religious grace forgiving
The ministry of fear that won't let you live. The ministry of grace that doesn't forgive. Ozzy Osbourne
religious rocks rock-and-roll
Rock and roll is my religion. Ozzy Osbourne
religious school sunday
I knew about holiness, never having missed a Sunday-school class since I started at four years. But if Jews were also religious, how could our neighbor with the grease-grimy shirt use the word 'damn' about them? Paul Engle
religious powerful father
I was brought up in a very religious household and did a lot of praying throughout a big part of my life and always thought of God as being not only a powerful father figure and the ruler of all time and dimension but also as a friend with whom I could chat and ask questions to and get advice from. Paul Feig
religious men liberty
The birthright of man ... is such a degree of liberty, civil and religious, as is compatible with the liberty of every other individual with whom he is united in a social compact. Mary Wollstonecraft
religious sex children
Research on child abuse suggests that religious beliefs can foster, encourage, and justify the abuse of children. When contempt for sex underlies teachings, this creates a breeding ground for abuse. Mary Garden
religious perspective giving
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective. Martha Beck
religious atheist hymns
I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them. Mark Haddon
religious jesus redemption
If we simply preach the effects of redemption in the human life instead of the revealed, divine truth regarding Jesus Himself, the result is not new birth in those who listen. The result is {only} a refined religious lifestyle . . . we must make sure that we are living in such harmony with God that as we proclaim His truth He can create in others those things which He alone can do. Oswald Chambers
religious jesus heart
Many people begin coming to God once they stop being religious.There's only one master of the heart-Jesus, not religion. Oswald Chambers
religious people cold
It is perilously possible to make our conceptions of God like molten lead poured into a specially designed mould, and when it is cold and hard we fling it at the heads of the religious people who don't agree with us. Oswald Chambers
religious jesus real
If we are to be ready for Jesus Christ, we have to stop being religious (that is, using religion as a higher kind of culture) and be spiritually real. Oswald Chambers
religious consistency faithful
Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to a principle but to the divine life. It is easier to be an excessive fanatic than it is to be consistently faithful, because God causes an amazing humbling of our religious conceit when we are faithful to Him. Oswald Chambers
religious religion kicking
There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. Oswald Chambers
religious religion obedience
Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God. Oswald Chambers
religious attitude character
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights. Oswald Chambers
religious rights voting
Her [Jurdge Sandra Day O'Connor] judgment has also been critical in protecting our environmental rights. She joined in 5-4 majorities affirming reproductive freedom and religious freedom and the Voting Rights Act. Patrick Leahy
religious children book
And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught. Pat Buchanan