69 Inspirational Religious Quotes

Jan. 4, 2025, 7:45 p.m.

69 Inspirational Religious Quotes

In our journey through life, moments of reflection and inspiration can provide us with profound clarity and guidance. Religious teachings have long served as a beacon for those seeking wisdom and solace, offering timeless insights that transcend the barriers of time and culture. Whether you seek motivation, comfort, or spiritual enlightenment, words infused with faith and belief can uplift your spirit and renew your sense of purpose. In this collection, we've gathered 69 inspirational religious quotes that embody hope, love, and faith. Let these powerful words resonate within you, encouraging a deeper connection to your spiritual path and the world around you.

1. “But behold, the Lord hath redeemed my soul from hell; I have beheld his glory, and I am encircled about eternally in the arms of his love.” - Anonymous

2. “We are not called by God to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things with extraordinary love. ” - Jean Vanier

3. “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.” - Malcolm X

4. “Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

5. “Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.” - C. S. Lewis

6. “Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.” - Ann Patchett

7. “Christlike attributes come into our lives as we exercise our agenncy righteously.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

8. “The one help we all need is given to us freely though the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Having faith in Jesus Christ and In His Atonement means relying completely on Him-trusting in His infinite power, intelligence, and love.” - Dieter F. Uchtdorf

9. “Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.” - Napoleon Bonaparte

10. “During the night, angels stared down through the stars into Jacob's world. They watched him sleep. They commented on the way his body folded on the bed. They liked this man. They drew their wings over him and stood guard by his soul.” - Noah BenShea

11. “Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.” - Mark Millar

12. “We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.” - Richard G. Scott

13. “Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.” - Thomas Jefferson

14. “We who are given the fullness of true Christianity are obliged to be working on ourselves, to be watching the signs of the times, and to be extremely joyful, as St. Paul is constantly saying: 'Rejoice in the Lord always, and again I say: Rejoice!' (Phil. 4:4). We rejoice because we have something which all the death and corruption of this world cannot take away, that is, the eternal Kingdom of Jesus Christ.” - Seraphim Rose

15. “Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ” - Dorothy Day

16. “Anxiously you ask, 'Is there a way to safety? Can someone guide me? Is there an escape from threatened destruction?' The answer is a resounding yes! I counsel you: Look to the lighthouse of the Lord. There is no fog so dense, no night so dark, no gale so strong, no mariner so lost but what its beacon light can rescue. It beckons through the storms of life. It calls, 'This way to safety; this way to home.” - Thomas S. Monson

17. “Our testimonies, our closeness to our Father in Heaven, and our ability to serve and love and laugh and enjoy life do not depend on whether we are married or single. If we look to Christ for answers, He will give them. It also follows that with our increased devotion and understanding of Him, the happier and more complete we will become and the more we will comprehend our true worth in the sight of God.” - Kristen McMain Oaks

18. “As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have a responsibility to make our moment bright and to live to ur full potential, married or not.” - Kristen McMain Oaks

19. “His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.” - Elizabeth Gaskell

20. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9” - Anonymous

21. “When we attempt to clear up the mess others have made, or when we love the unlovely, we demonstrate the kind of weirdness God likes. We give the lie to the evolutionary survival of the fittest maxim...” - Ann Benton

22. “Living life ONCE is enough...if you live life RIGHT.” - John Paul warren

23. “Faith UP! Your purpose is GREATER than all your PROBLEMS.” - John Paul warren

24. “While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite.” - Hyde

25. “Times of sadness are the very moment to laugh and laugh greatly.” - Masaharu Taniguchi

26. “That when we live no more, We may live ever” - Anne Bradstreet

27. “For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.” - Alexandre Dumas

28. “Jangan jadikan seseorang saudara sebelum kau bergaul lama, sebelum kau mengenalnya dari berbagai sumber yang ada.” - Abu Malik Muhammad

29. “Tie me up, please..." Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he had to comply.A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest—Brett could hardly contain his elation.” - Jess C. Scott

30. “Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him.” - C.S. Lewis

31. “...I know I was wrong. If i could go back and do it over, I would. I wish I could undo it all."I know that." Grandma reached over and put a twisted hand on hers. "'Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.' Isaiah one eighteen."I've done terrible things."Don't make no difference. You can't out-sin the cross.” - Linda Nichols

32. “No matter how righteous you are, no matter how carefully youcultivate the companionship of the Holy Ghost, there are vast amounts of knowledge which you need to acquireand which you are not going to receive through revelation.” - Rex E. Lee

33. “Religious sentiments are many a times much above reality. All are aware of reality but blinded by faith and faith has always led to many a myths become reality".” - Dr. Amit Abraham

34. “Ние строим духовно пречиствателна станция.” - Схиархимандрит Касиан

35. “Ty, my boy, here's what you tell them. Say it quietly, and sincerely, and like it's the most important thing anyone ever uttered. Tell them, 'Jesus loves you. But I'm his favorite.” - Robin Reardon

36. “With his revelation,...I shattered into a million shards. I felt each piece as it splintered and separated from the whole like a glass I had broken the day before. Debris flew everywhere. It left me without any option but to pick each broken piece up, analyze it, and find out where it belonged. I had to find out where I belonged. Allison La Crosse - Warriors of the Cross” - T.R. Graves

37. “Life is not a funfair, life is a warfare” - David oyedepo

38. “God is in the slums, in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the silence of a mother who has infected her child with a virus that will end both their lives. God is in the cries heard under the rubble of war. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them.” - Bono

39. “All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.” - Robert McGee

40. “We will take a few moments and make fun of religious people, and we do this in love. No, we do, because we love to make fun of religious people.” - Mark Driscoll

41. “The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become "present" within it.” - Pope Benedict-XVI

42. “Our feelings are unreliable and cannot be trusted to convey truth.” - Joyce Meyer

43. “If you are fortunate enough to enjoy great success, you should never forget the spirit of the beginner, and not grow indolent and arrogant.” - Kentetsu Takamori

44. “The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.” - Karl Rahner

45. “لا تكون رحلة النضوج هذه سهلة أبدا , بل إنها تشبه أحيانا احتراقا داخليا, ألم عظيم و مشقة ليست أثل من ألم و مشقة و معاناة الولادة,و ليست أقل قداسة في الوقت نفسه, فتغيير الذات مخاض عسير و صامت , الصراخ معه لا يجدي كما قد ينفع مع آلام المخاض الاعتيادي , بل هو يحتاج إلى صبر دؤوب و اصطبار حقيقي و متابعة لهذا الصير و ذلك الاصطبار ... و ينتج من ذلك كله معاناة حقيقية هي في جوهرها احتراق حقيقي , وصولا إلى النضوج ..إلى التغيير” - أحمد خيري العمري

46. “يمكن للصلاة عندما تكون حقا صلاة , أن تكون خبزنا , لأنها ستعلمنا كيف نكون ناضجين بما فيه الكفاية لنصنع خبزنا بأنفسنا , الصلاة هي خبزنا الحقيقي لأنها ستجعلنا راشدين بما فيه الكفاية لنزرع قمحنا و نسقيه و نرعاه و من ثم نحصده لنطحنه و نأكل خبزنا من صنع أيدينا.” - أحمد خيري العمري

47. “ليس هناك ما هو أفظع من قهر الأحرار ، فقلوبهم التي تنبض بسلام .. أو تتدفق رحمة تصبح في لحظة اذلال براكين وشواظ من نار ونحاس ..وما الثورات التي تندلع كحرائق مجنونة إلا غضب مقدس يختار فيه الأحرار الفناء من أجل الكرامة ..” - كمال السيد

48. “The WeaverMy life is but a weavingbetween my Lord and me;I cannot choose the colorsHe worketh steadily.Oft times He weaveth sorrowAnd I, in foolish pride,Forget He sees the upper,And I the underside.Not til the loom is silentAnd the shuttles cease to fly,Shall God unroll the canvasAnd explain the reason why.The dark threads are as needfulIn the Weaver's skillful hand,As the threads of gold and silverIn the pattern He has planned.” - Benjamin Malachi Franklin

49. “frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace.” - Joyce Meyer

50. “But the witness of the substitutionary atonement of Jesus is that God's most difficult promise has been kept.” - Sheila Walsh

51. “Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.” - Jonh Wesley

52. “Don't creationists ever wonder about the fact that the paleontologists found ape-like skulls with the 'human leg and foot bones,' rather than the other way around, i.e., human skulls with 'ape leg and foot bones?' . . . Come on, creationists, think about it! Did God hide the human skulls, only leaving behind leg and foot bones belonging to human midgets with misshapen feet, and mix such bones only with the skulls of ape-like creatures with larger cranial capacities than living apes? What a 'kidder' the creationists' God must be.” - Edward Babinski

53. “Fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge. Only Fools despise wisdom and discipline." Proverbs 1:7 NLT” - Eddie Johnson

54. “Locating friendship at the heart of mission involves certain assumptions -- that reconciliation with God is something for which every human being is made and relationships are reciprocal.” - Christopher Heuertz

55. “И на съвършените съвършенството е несъвършено. Св. Иоан Лествичник” - Преподобный Никодим Святогорец

56. “Lord, when I feel that what I'm doing is insignificant and unimportant, help me to remember that everything I do is significant and important in your eyes, because you love me and you put me here, and no one else can do what I am doing in exactly the way I do it.” - Brennan Manning

57. “All love tends to become like that which it loves. God loved man; therefore He became man. For nine months her own body was the natural Eucharist, in which God shared communion with human life, thus preparing for that greater Eucharist when human life would commune with the Divine. Mary’s joy was to form Christ in her own body; her joy now is to form Christ in our souls. In this Mystery, we pray to become pregnant with the Christ spirit, giving Him new lips with which He may speak of His Father, new hands with which He may feed the poor, and a new heart with which He may love everyone, even enemies.” - Fulton J. Sheen

58. “He (God) is right and always has been, because in reality God is only love.” - Deepak Chopra

59. “Commit yourself to the possibility that everything you see around you is far less real than God. You want to see the truth "with all your heart, with all you soul, and with all your mind," as Jesus says. This is actually a commitment to joy.” - Deepak Chopra

60. “Maybe it's all utterly meaningless. Maybe it's all unutterably meaningful. If you want to know which, pay attention to what it means to be truly human in a world that half the time we're in love with and half the time scares the hell out of us. Any fiction that helps us pay attention to that is religious fiction. The unexpected sound of your name on somebody's lips. The good dream. The strange coincidence. The moment that brings tears to your eyes. The person who brings life to your life. Even the smallest events hold the greatest clues.” - Frederick Buechner

61. “The "war" is being fought along the line between sin and righteousness in every family. It is being fought along the line between truth and falsehood in every school... Between justice and injustice in every legislature... Between integrity and corruption in every office... Between love and hate in every ethnic group... Between pride and humility in every sport... Between the beautiful and the ugly in every art... Between right doctrine and wrong doctrine in every church... Between sloth and diligence between coffee breaks. It is not a waste to fight the battle for truth and faith and love on any of these fronts.” - John Piper

62. “Our prayers can go where we cannot...there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.” - Brother Andrew

63. “Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory.” - Fulton J. Sheen

64. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. -John, Apostle (and brother?) of Jesus, The Bible (RSV, non-Catholic), 3:16” - John Apostle

65. “ووالله لولا كراهية تمني البلاء, ولولا امر النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم لأمته بسؤال العافية, ولولا عدم معرفتنا امكانية صبرنا عند وقوع البلاء من عدمه, لكان تمني مثل هذا البلاء هو فعل الاذكياء النبهاء.” - خالد أبو شادي

66. “But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window at His Creation. Because that, darling, He makes fresh for us every day, without a lot of dubious middle managers.” - Barbara Kingsolver

67. “The life of a human being on this earth is very short - the years fly by - and the opportunity is past - forever. You know that the ONLY REASON for a human being's life on this earth is to attain to the Knowledge of God - all else is nothing, all else passes away as a wind passes away.” - Violette Nakhjavani

68. “When we look back, it becomes clear that the acts and accomplishments of human beings are the signatures of history. Human signatures have created an enormous chasm between the joyeous light of the age of the Renaissance to the dark shadow of September 11, 2001. Those of us living on that fateful day experienced the lower depths of mankind. As an author, avid reader, world traveler, and person of enormous curiosity, my life experiences have taught me that discord often erupts from a lack of knowledge and education. To discourage future dark moments, I believe we must nourish the minds of our young with learning that creates understanding between ethnic and religious groups. Perhaps understanding will lead to a marvelous day when we take a last fleeting look at violence so harmful to so many. I sincerely believe that nothing will further the cause of peace more than the education of our young. I would like for readers to know that a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be devoted to the cause of education.May all roads lead to peace.” - Jean Sasson

69. “For an atheist you will be always considered as a human no matter what, but for a religious if you don’t belong with them, you are always an infidel.” - M.F. Moonzajer