Spirituality & Faith: Faith Quotes

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Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

"I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult"

Giovanni Ribisi, Actor

"If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others"

Anthony Burgess, Novelist

"Lower your expectations of Earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be"

Max Lucado, Clergyman

"The Church became both more accessible and less imposing. It threw itself open to risk"

Lance Morrow, Journalist

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible"

Stuart Chase, Writer

"I found enormous opposition to my religion. It's like if you want to strengthen your biceps, you lift heavy weight, as heavy as you can handle, and work your muscles against resistance until it grows strong. I had to do that with my religion"

Ricardo Montalban, Actor

"The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth or residence in a certain geographical area"

James Larkin, Activist

"All revolutions are spiritual at the source. All my activities have the sole purpose of achieving a union of hearts"

Vinoba Bhave, Educator

"I further believe that all must be saved through the merits of Christ"

Daniel Morgan, Soldier

"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body"

Stanislav Grof, Psychologist

"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven"

Francis Beaumont, Playwright

"Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies between the pain of hell and Paradise"

George William Russell, Writer

"Real religion is no religion at all"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ"

David Livingstone, Explorer

"Seek on earth what you have found in heaven"

George William Russell, Writer

"But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people"

Cliff Richard, Musician

"Also, I preached to gangs on the streets of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx - and miracles began to happen"

David Wilkerson, Clergyman

"Drinking bear is easy. Trashing your hotel room is easy. But being a Christian, that's a tough call. That's rebellion"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"More than anything, people want the reality of the discussion at hand. If what is going on in that building is the real thing, if the transforming love and power of Jesus Christ is being experienced, you can sit on a metal folding chair or in a plush theater seat"

Bill Hybels, Clergyman

"All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest"

Beatrix Potter, Author

"Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin"

Johannes Tauler, Theologian

"One king, one law, one faith"

Philip II of Spain, Royalty

"Religion obviously played a role in this book and the previous book, too"

Studs Terkel, Journalist

"I thought some of Mrs. White's material was prophetic. I felt some of her insights were extremely helpful and I regarded her as a sister in the Lord. I wasn't out to attack Ellen White's character"

Walter Martin, Clergyman

"I think any spiritual experience that's worthwhile is not about ego and it will humble you in some way. And also, a Zen monk once said to me, 'If you're not laughing, then you're not getting it.'"

David O. Russell, Director

"As I understand it, laws, commands, rules and edicts are for those who have not the light, which makres plain the pathway"

Anne Hutchinson, Clergyman

"I am a person whose father had no religion but who went to the nuns for a couple of years. And I think I'm the same: On one hand, I pray; on the other hand, I don't believe. I am constantly between the two"

Anjelica Huston, Actress

"We are very near the final climactic events that end with the Second Coming of Christ"

Hal Lindsey, Writer

"No secular state ever existed and none would exist until the end of the French Revolution, and so we understand that America was built on the Judeo-Christian ethic and we believe that this nominee is going to see to it that those truths are upheld"

Rod Parsley, Celebrity

"Religion points to that area of human experience where, in one way or another, man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage"

Frederick Buechner, Clergyman

"We can hear the silent voice of the spiritual universe within our own hearts"

Ruth St. Denis, Dancer

"I think worship is a lifestyle, first of all"

Michael W. Smith, Musician

"My dad always said I was hard-headed, that it would take something like that to wake me up spiritually, and I guess it did. My heart had gotten so beat up that I didn't have anything left to give"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"I'm sure that Jesus was an incredible person"

Sandra Bernhard, Actress

"Hell is paved with priests' skulls"

John Chrysostom, Clergyman

"Throughout the years, many Christian women have told me of their great respect for the bravery and courage evident in my work, perhaps even gesturing to their own Isis earrings or a Nile River Goddess pendants"

Carol P. Christ, Educator

"Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world"

Charles Hodge, Theologian

"One congressman asked 'I just want to know if you've accepted Jesus Christ as your personal savior'. The minister looked stunned, and he said 'no'. The whole table almost fell on the floor. The congressman was quite serious. That was his litmus test"

Jim Sasser, Politician

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