Religious Life Quotes

• Whoever uncouples the religious and the social life has not understood Jesus. Whoever sets any bounds for the reconstructive power of the religious life over the social relations and institutions of men, to that extent denies the faith of the Master.

  Walter Rauschenbusch

  God, Faith, Christian

  "Christianity and the Social Crisis". Book by Walter Rauschenbusch, 1913.

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• We're not at a point in time to be taking chances with children and young people in the church. The Holy Father himself said... there is no room in the priesthood or religious life for someone who has abused a child. I think he's right.

  Roger Mahony

  Religious, Children, Father

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• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  J. D. Salinger

  Religious, Agony, People

  "Zooey (1957)". "Franny and Zooey". Book by J. D. Salinger, 1961.

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• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  Abraham Cahan

  Religious, Jewish Faith, Orthodox

  Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.44, Courier Corporation

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• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Motivational

  "Science, Philosophy, and Religion" (1940).

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• A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

  Madame de Stael

  Religious, Struggle, Hymns

  "Corinne, or Italy". Book by Madame de Stael, 1807.

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• The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Motivational, God

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.49, Broadway Books

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• Religious life ought to promote growth in the Church by way of attraction. The Church must be attractive. Wake up the world! Be witnesses of a different way of doing things, of acting, of living! It is possible to live differently in this world.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Growth, Acting

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• Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness—in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture.

  George Eliot

  Witty, Religious, Real

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6957, Delphi Classics

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• Perpetual Adoration, Eucharistic Adoration offers to our people the opportunity to join those in religious life to pray for the salvation of the world, souls everywhere and peace on earth. We cannot underestimate the power of prayer and the difference it will make in our world

  Mother Teresa

  Religious, Prayer, Opportunity

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• To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Religious, Men

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• If you are posing as religious and are not living the life as stressed by God, you should wake up. It is wrong to be insincere. The best time to begin a religious life is when you are youthful and well. If you have a short time to live, you must work harder at it. And if you have along time to live, you should not waste that precious opportunity.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Life, Religious, Hard Work

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• Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.

  Karen Armstrong

  Religious, Compassion, Keys

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• The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Religious

  Swami Vivekananda (1968). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.

  David Kudler

  Spiritual, Religious, Civilization

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• For this knowledge of right living, we have sought a new name... . As theology is the science of religious life, and biology the science of [physical] life ... so let Oekology be henceforth the science of [our] normal lives ... the worthiest of all the applied sciences which teaches the principles on which to found... healthy... and happy life.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Religious, Knowledge, Happy Life

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• Religious life is not going to go away. It will take a different form. Why am I so sure it's not going to go away? Because there are people whose personalities and gifts, and interests and soul, are simply immersed in living this kind of a spiritual lifestyle. That only makes sense. If you can live an artistic lifestyle, why can't somebody live a spiritual lifestyle? We've always, in every single great tradition, had a percentage of the population that stands in the middle of us being the beacon that calls us to realize that the spiritual life is an essential part of every life.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Spiritual, Religious, People

  Source: sojo.net

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• 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, Redemption

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• In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, India, Form

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Vivekananda Reader”, p.251, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Heaven is not to be looked upon only as the reward, but the natural effect, of a religious life.

  Joseph Addison

  Religious, Heaven, Rewards

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: with a biographical and critical preface, and explanatory notes”, p.373

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• The decline and fall of the modern religious right's notion of a Christian America creates a calmer political environment and, for many believers, may help open the way for a more theologically serious religious life.

  Jon Meacham

  Christian, Religious, Fall

  "Jon Meacham: Covering Conflict". Interview with Randall Balmer, ircpl.org. October 28, 2009.

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• If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Religious, People, Trying

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• Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Thinking, Devil

  C.S. Lewis (1960). “Mere Christianity”

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• One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.

  Bell Hooks

  Religious, America, People

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• With that height, plus a face of an ugliness so transcendant as to be grotesquely beautiful, it was obvious why she had embraced a religious life--Christ was the only man from whom she might expect embrace in return.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Beautiful, Religious, Men

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.859, Dell

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