All Quotes By Tag: Religion

“To be grateful is to recognize the Love of God in everything He has given us – and He has given us everything. Every breath we draw is a gift of His love, every moment of existence is a grace, for it brings with it immense graces from Him. Gratitude therefore takes nothing for granted, is never unresponsive, is constantly awakening to new wonder and to praise of the goodness of God. For the grateful person knows that God is good, not by hearsay but by experience. And that is what makes all the difference.”

“I came to the conclusion long ago that all religions were true and that also that all had some error in them, and while I hold by my own religion, I should hold other religions as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we were Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu; but our innermost prayer should be that a Hindu should become a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, and a Christian a better Christian.”

“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.”

“The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”

“To see and feel one’s beloved naked for the first time is one of life’s pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.”

“It is truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.”

“The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.”

“Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.”

“We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.”

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man’s.”

“Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.”

“God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.”

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”