Religious Quotes - Page 38

• Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Air, Two

  Martin Luther, Jules Michelet (1846). “The Life of Luther”, p.326

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• At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there.

  Martin Luther

  Humor, Lakes, Storm

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Many demons are in woods, in waters, in wildernesses, and in dark poolly places ready to hurt...people.

  Martin Luther

  Hurt, Humor, Dark

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• 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

  Humor, Devil, Way

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• The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.

  Martin Luther

  Book, Humor, Biblical

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• To be a Christian, you must pluck out the eye of reason.

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Humor, Eye

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• How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences.

  Martin Luther

  Girl, Humor, Water

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.325

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• 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

  Humor, Air, Devil

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Tolerance, Suffering

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• The greatest saints, those richest in grace and virtue will be the most assiduous in praying to the most Blessed Virgin, looking up to her as the perfect model to imitate and as a powerful helper to assist them.

  Louis de Montfort

  Powerful, Blessed, Perfect

  Saint Louis de Montfort (2016). “True Devotion to Mary: Saint Louis de Montfort”, p.28, Danka

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• It is impossible to save one's soul without devotion to Mary and without her protection.

  Anselm of Canterbury

  Soul, Impossible, Protection

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• After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Mother, Jesus, Heart

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• That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

  Saint Augustine

  Mother, Children, Faithful

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• When I go out in the morning and see these men standing in their queues and look into their pinched faces, then I believe I would be no Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two thousand years ago, turn against those by whom today this poor people are plundered and exposed.

  Adolf Hitler

  Christian, Morning, Believe

  Adolf Hitler (1942). “The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939: An English Translation of Representative Passages Arranged Under Subjects and Edited by Norman H. Baynes”

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• Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  James A. Haught

  Atheist, Compassion, People

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• The day of the Nativity of the Mother of God is a day of universal joy, because through the Mother of God, the entire human race was renewed, and the sorrow of the first mother, Eve, was transformed into joy.

  John of Damascus

  Mother, Race, Joy

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• Devotion to you, O Blessed Virgin, is a means of salvation which God gives to those whom he wishes to save.

  John of Damascus

  Blessed, Mean, Giving

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• I was raised a Catholic. But I am not religious. In my work, I am interested in real flesh and blood.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Real, Blood, Catholic

  "Any answers?". Interview with Adrian Searle, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2004.

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• Iran rejects weapons of mass destruction based on its belief system, its religious belief system, as well as its ethical standpoint.

  Hassan Rouhani

  Mass Destruction, Iran, Weapons

  "Amanpour" with Christiane Amanpour, amanpour.blogs.cnn.com. September 25, 2013.

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• I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of that for me. You know, I was brought up strictly kosher, but I - it made no sense to me. It made no sense to me what was happening. So nothing of it means anything to me. Nothing. Except these few little trivial things that are related to being Jewish. ... You know who my gods are, who I believe in fervently? Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson - she's probably the top - Mozart, Shakespeare, Keats. These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life.

  Maurice Sendak

  Regret, War, Believe

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• These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness

  Frank Herbert

  Honesty, Successful, Men

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• If a harmonious relationship is established amongst societies and religious beliefs in today's multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-cultural world, then it will surely set a very good example for others.

  Dalai Lama

  Example, World, Today

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• It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Order, Ideas, Mind

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• It is the religious impulse which supplies the cohesive force which unifies a society and a culture... A society which has lost its religion becomes sooner or later a society which has lost its culture.

  Christopher Dawson

  Culture, Lost, Force

  Christopher Dawson, Robert Royal (2009). “Enquiries Into Religion and Culture (The Works of Christopher Dawson)”, p.94, CUA Press

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• The nicest characters in A Week in December research are, in fact, Muslims - and their religious devotion is one of the things that defines them.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Character, Facts, December

  "Sebastian Faulks moves to head off Islam row" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 24, 2009.

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