Religious Love Quotes

Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.

The problem with liberal Protestantism in America is not that it has not been orthodox enough, but that it has lost a lot of religious substance

I am not here to parade my religious sentiments, but I declare I have too much respect for the faith in which I was born to ever use it as the basis of a political organization

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!

The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.

The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

I am going to judge my circumstances by Jesus’ love, not Jesus’ love by my circumstances.

With the same intensity that the Father loves Jesus, He loves you.

I love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, or I might be a vegetarian, make me any less of an American.

Feuerbach ... recognizes ... "even love, in itself the truest, most inward sentiment, becomes an obscure, illusory one through religiousness, since religious love loves man only for God's sake, therefore loves man only apparently, but in truth God only." Is this different with moral love? Does it love the man, this man for this man's sake, or for morality's sake, for Man's sake, and so-for homo homini Deus-for God's sake?

Love is indeed Heaven upon Earth; since Heaven above would not be Heaven without it: For where there is not Love; there is Fear: But perfect Love casts out Fear. And yet we naturally fear most to offend what we most Love.

Let the love of Allah heal you. And free you.

Heaven's harmony is universal love.

To love is everything: love is God.

The love of God is not only the highest form of love, but also in reality the only love of which all other loves are but shadows

God loves you not because you are worthy, but because He is God and you are a fixture in His mind.

I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.

At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.

The most rabidly religious people are the most rabidly evil.

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

One thing I've always struggled with in life is loving people too much. It's painful when that love is not reciprocated. But one thing I always comfort myself with is the fact that Allah will always show greater love to those who love Him. Allah doesn't disappoint you so keep your heart attached to Him.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

At some point we must make a decision not to allow the mere threat of charges of cultural or religious insensitivity to stop us from dealing with this evil

Our Constitution recognises no other power than that of persuasion, for enforcing religious observances.

Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every respect and office in which He reveals Himself. As that love of which God is the object is religious love, so that confidence in Him as a Father, a Moral Governor, a Redeemer, a Sanctifier, in all the modes of His manifestation, by which we believe whatever He says because He says it, and commit ourselves and all our interests cheerfully and entirely into His hands, is religious faith.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Holiness doesn't mean doing extraordinary things, but doing ordinary things with love and faith.

I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily bread."

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places of believing practices, but for this very reason, they seem to have been haunted by the return of a very ancient (preChristian) and very “pagan” alliance between power and religion. It is as though now that religion has ceased to be an autonomous power (the “power of religion,” people used to say), politics has once again become religious.

Disordered love always leads to misery and breakdown. The only way to 'reorder' our loves is to love God supremely.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Many artists and writers have used cannabis for creative stimulation - from the writers of the world's religious masterpieces to our most irreverent satirists.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.

I believe that nothing enjoys a higher estate in our society than the right given by the First and Fourteenth Amendments freely to practice and proclaim one's religious convictions.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

We shall say clearly that any symbol conspicuously displaying religious affiliation in school is prohibited.

Time was with most of us, when Christmas Day, encircling all our limited world like a magic ring, left nothing out for us to miss or seek; bound together all our home enjoyments, affections, and hopes; grouped everything and everyone round the Christmas fire, and make the little picture shining in our bright young eyes, complete.

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't.

A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

A lot of the powerful religious leaders, from Jesus to Buddha to Tibetan monks, they're really talking about the same things: love and acceptable, and the value of friendship, and respecting yourself so you can respect others.

If love is the soul of Christian existence, it must be at the heart of every other Christian virtue. Thus, for example, justice without love is legalism; faith without love is ideology; hope without love is self-centeredness; forgiveness without love is self-abasement; fortitude without love is recklessness; generosity without love is extravagance; care without love is mere duty; fidelity without love is servitude. Every virtue is an expression of love. No virtue is really a virtue unless it is permeated, or informed, by love.