70 Inspirational Religious Quotes

In a world where uncertainties often cloud our path, a touch of inspiration can illuminate the journey. Religious teachings, with their rich tapestry of wisdom and solace, offer profound insights to uplift the soul and invigorate the spirit. Whether you seek comfort in times of trial or a moment of reflection amidst life’s chaos, turning to timeless words of faith can be a guiding light. This collection of 70 inspirational religious quotes is thoughtfully curated to provide you with moments of peace, clarity, and inspiration. Each quote, a beacon of hope, serves to remind us of the enduring strength and love that faith brings into our lives. Join us as we delve into these powerful messages, encouraging hearts and minds to soar toward the divine.

1. “Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes;The rest sit round and pluck blackberries.” - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

2. “The Lord often has his prophets climb mountains to converse with Him. I always wondered why He did that, and now I know the answer: when we are on high, we can see everything else as small. Our glory and sadness lose their importance. Whatever we conquered or lost remains there below. From the heights of the mountain, you see how large the world is, and how wide its horizons.” - Paulo Coelho

3. “Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still our thought, and let divine sensation have its way. It needs industry and goodwill if we would make that transition; for the process involves a veritable spring-cleaning of the soul, a turning-out and rearrangement of our mental furniture, a wide opening of closed windows, that the notes of the wild birds beyond our garden may come to us fully charged with wonder and freshness, and drown with their music the noise of the gramaphone within. Those who do this, discover that they have lived in a stuffy world, whilst their inheritance was a world of morning-glory:where every tit-mouse is a celestial messenger, and every thrusting bud is charged with the full significance of life.” - Evelyn Underhill

4. “The more we believe that God hurts only to heal, the less we can believe that there is any use in begging for tenderness. A cruel man might be bribed...But suppose that what you are up against is a surgeon whose intentions are wholly good. The kinder and more conscientious he is, the more inexorably he will go on cutting. If he yielded to your entreaties, if he stopped before the operation was complete, all the pain up to that point would have been useless. But is it credible that such extremities of torture should be necessary for us? Well, take your choice. The tortures occur. If they are unnecessary, then there is no God or a bad one. If there is a good God, then these tortures are necessary. For no even moderately good Being could possibly inflict or permit them if they weren't. Either way, we're for it.” - C.S. Lewis

5. “دين الإسلام لم يمت ولن يموت .. لأنه وضع للبشر لم يكلفهم فوق طاقاتهم ولم يطالبهم بالمستحيلات .. ولم يدعهم إلى المثاليات .. لا يقول :كونوا ملائكة ولا يقول : أنتم شياطين , بل يقول : كونوا بشراً لكن صالحين !” - محمد الصوياني

6. “إن قريشاً شرسة .. كالموج , لكن محمداً صلى الله عليه وسلم كان رباناً ماهراً” - محمد الصوياني

7. “There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.” - Oswald Chambers

8. “All that is deformed ought to be reformed. The Word of God alone teaches us what ought to be so, and all reform effected otherwise is vain.” - Francis Lambert

9. “The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.” - Patrick Hamilton

10. “It's easy to write upcoming scenes in books and television shows. Trusting God to write them in real life is a lot harder. But it's worth it. And you have to admit, it's an adventure.” - Janice Thompson

11. “God will only give you what you would have asked for if you knew everything he knows” - Timothy Keller

12. “A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection..” - Paula Wall

13. “Stepparenting is like working at a late-night convenience store — all of the responsibility and none of the authority.” - Valerie J Lewis Coleman

14. “I tried to make my husband make his daughter like me. After ten years of failed attempts, I decided to make myself change.” - Valerie J Lewis Coleman

15. “Tuhanku Yang Maha Penyayang,...Aku selalu merasa kurang,tak pandai, paling tak beruntung,dan terkadang batinku bertanyamengapa Engkau tak adil kepadaku.Aku sadar bahwa menyalahkan-Muitu salah, dan karenanya Tuhankumaafkanlah aku.Tuhan,rahmatilah aku dengan kemandirianyang cukup untuk diriku sendiri,dan agar yang kulebihkanadalah untuk kebahagiaan sesama.Aamiin” - Mario Teguh

16. “Let the consequences of your obedience be left up to God.” - Oswald Chambers

17. “Those who fervently love God are intoxicated by His warmth and live out their addiction like moths drawn to a flame.” - Calvin Miller

18. “The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.” - Edgar Allan Poe

19. “Jangan berasa malu apabila kita tidak tahu tentang sesuatu. Membaca, mengkaji dan rajinlah bertanya. Sungguh kita tidak akan pernah rugi. Allah mengurniakan kehendak pada diri kita untuk menimba ilmu. Maknanya, Peluang sentiasa terbuka untuk kita menerokanya," Fidae'i Al Humaidi” - Thoyba Mursyidah

20. “Tomorrow she’d look up tattoo removal. They were doing big things with lasers now. When Cal was just a little more stable, she’d break up with him, gently, and then she’d begin her project of helping everybody she could help, and after that she’d head out on a great long journey to absolutely nowhere and write a gorgeous poem cycle steeped in heavenly lavender-scented closure and also utter despair, a poem cycle you could also actually ride for its aerobic benefits, and she’d pedal that fucker straight across the face of the earth until at some point she’d coast right off the edge, whereupon she’d giggle and say, “Oh, shit.” - Sam Lipsyte

21. “God is good, but God is also just.” - Stapleton

22. “My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun.” - Kahlil Gibran

23. “There is nothing that happens to us, not a thing we see or hear or touch that God cannot use to show us more of himself. Our lives are a daily journey in his company...” - Elizabeth Sherrill

24. “I began to trust the questions themselves to lead me beyond answers to understanding, beyond practice to faith” - Joan Chittister

25. “How can we truly understand who we are unless we know who we were and what we have the power to become?” - Neal A. Maxwell

26. “If we live in such a way that the considerations of eternity press upon us, we will make better decisions.” - Spencer W. Kimball

27. “Put your time to good use because only the present belong to us, tomorrow is never for sure.” - Luang Phaw Dhammajayo

28. “My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.” - Madeleine L'Engle

29. “For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?” - Denise Hunter

30. “Oh Heaven! You sometimes bear with such injustice on earth, that I understand why there are wretches who doubt in your existence.” - Alexandre Dumas

31. “We may have given to us, in this life, a few things that will give us satisfaction, temporally; but the things that are eternal, the things that are "worth while", are those eternal things that we reach out for, and prepare ourselves to receive, and lay hold of by the effort that we individually make.” - George Albert Smith

32. “How does one magnify a calling? Simply by performing the service that pertains to it.” - Thomas S. Monson

33. “We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.” - Tony Dungy

34. “Your eternal destiny will not be the result of chance but of choice.” - Randall K. Bennett

35. “Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.” - Søren Kierkegaard

36. “ความเชื่อเหมือนหางเสือ ใครตั้งไว้ทิศไหน ชีวิตเราก็ไปในทิศนั้น” - อุดม แต้พานิช

37. “In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.” - The Refined Poet

38. “...we think being a Christian means to go to church on Sunday and trying to be good through the week. Now I see it means suffering, being willing to let the hard things happen to you, so that God can use us to do His work on this earth!” - Kimberly L. Smith

39. “God comes to each of us in the form we can best perceive Him. To you, just now, He was a heron. To someone else, He might come as a flower or even a breeze.” - Richard Zimler

40. “No matter your performance on the playing field of life today, the Lord has a hug awaiting you at the day's end. He is your Number One Fan." John 16:33 "These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world."(less) ” - Honor Books, Inc

41. “Judaism teaches us the sentence, “The Lord is One,” is not exclusive to Adonai, but rather inclusive of everything, everything, everything! Did you get that? Everything is One. This means far more than the teaching we are all connected. That teaching could be speaking biologically, or even atomically. I am talking about more than even the microscopic connection we all share. More than our DNA.” - Laura Weakley

42. “What marvelous things happen when men and women walk with faith in obedience to that which is required of them! I recall reading the story of Commander William Robert Anderson, the naval officer who took the submarine Nautilus beneath the polar ice from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, a daring and dangerous feat. It recounted a number of other exploits of similar danger and concluded with a statement that the commander carried in his wallet a tattered card that had on it these words: “I believe God will always make a way where there is no way.” I too believe that God will always make a way where there is no way. I believe that if we will walk in obedience to the commandments of God, if we will follow the counsel of the priesthood, he will open a way even where there appears to be no way.” - Gordon B. Hinckley

43. “As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action” - Maitreya Upanishad

44. “When the mind is silent, beyond weakness or non concentration, then it can enter into a world which is far beyond the mind,the highest End” - Maitreya Upanishad

45. “When I stop trying to create a life for myself, I find the life God creates for me. When I cease trying to make a name for myself—competing, grasping, pushing my way to the top—His name emerges through the actions of my life.” - Rachel Olsen

46. “Some people think tears are a sign of weakness. But I see tears as a God-given way for us to express emotion.” - Shelley Hitz

47. “Grant unto us, Lord, that we may set our hope on Thy name…and open the eyes of our hearts, that wemay know Thee.”“We beseech Thee, Lord and Master, to be our help and succour. Save those among us who are intribulation; have mercy on the lowly; lift up the fallen; show Thyself to those in need; heal the sick; turnagain the wanderers of Thy people; feed the hungry; ransom our prisoners; raise up the weak; comfortthe faint-hearted. Let all nations know that Thou art God alone, and that Jesus Christ is Thy Son, andthat we are Thy people and the sheep of Thy pasture.”“We praise Thee who art able to do these and better things than these, through Jesus Christ the HighPriest and Guardian of our souls, through whom be glory and majesty to Thee, both now andthroughout all generations, for ever and ever. Amen.” - St. Clement of Rome 100 A.D.

48. “...it was better to believe in God and to be wrong than to believe that there was no God and to be right.” - Foreli Kramarik

49. “Things don't always turn out the way we plan, but don't ever let what you haven't done eclipse all the good you have done and are doing.” - Ardeth G. Kapp

50. “GIVING IS THE ONLY WAY TO GET BETTER” - NAIRA ABEOKUTE

51. “GIVE GOD YOUR TIME, HE WILL SURELY GIVE YOU HIS PLEASURES” - NAIRA ABEOKUTE

52. “Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” - Jonathan Edwards

53. “It is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is omnipotent.” - Jeremy Taylor

54. “If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.” - Roland Merullo

55. “once you Cultivate God in your thoughts, you ll find out that happiness is a state of mind .” - Sam Harik

56. “There is simply something wrong with my conscience. I do try to wrestle with the devil as I ought, but, like Eve, even when tempted by the Forbidden Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge, I succumb. Good as they are, how could my parents have bred a daughter like me?” - Miriam Brenaman

57. “Your past experiences are past indeed; those strains and emotions of sensuous life are gone and what has remained is the temple of your own building, that edifice not built by hands. The reality of you is in the invisible, the intangible. In retrospect your spiritual milestones stand stronger to you in their fixed position than any outward experience. Having arrived at this understanding try now, quietly, gently, without too much effort of self-discipline, to keep to the invisible, train yourself to keep immaterial. Watching and praying are essential. When hard pressed by old habits and you are under the heavy blanketings of times and events, you, as it were, disappear. This is the moment to step back into the invisible, for then the invisible will enfold you and give you great power in the visible world.” - Mary Strong

58. “Our weaknesses may never go away but when we give them to God, His grace will turn them into something beautiful...” - Heather Bixler

59. “The only way to prevent pride from taking root in our heart and our life is to embrace a life filled with faith, understanding, and forgiveness.” - Heather Bixler

60. “God didn't send His only Son to die on the cross so that we can hide behind our guilt, shame, and pride.” - Heather Bixler

61. “The Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, said: "My Companions are as stars. Whomsoever of them you follow, you will be rightly guided." When a man looks at a star, and finds his way by it, the star does not speak any word to that man. Yet, by merely looking at the star, the man knows the road from roadlessness and reaches his goal.” - Jalaluddin Rumi

62. “God is always there to pick each time you fall. He's always there with a word of comfort in the midst of the storm. Trust Jesus!” - Shearon Hurst

63. “He dumped its contents out on the tablecloth: a gold ring, a gold nugget, and a gold signet seal. Francisco pointed to each. I told you that this was the secret of happiness. The three objects belonged to a rich collector. When he was asleep they argued all the time. The gold ring declared it was better than the other two because miners had risked their lives to find it. The gold signet said it was better than the other two because it had sealed the messages of a king. They argued day and night, until the ring said. ‘Lets ask God’, He will decide which of us is the best. The other two agreed, and so they approached the Almighty. Each made its claim for being superior. God listened carefully, and when they were done, he said, ‘ I cant settle your dispute, I’m sorry. The gold signet seal grew angry ‘What do you mean, you cant settle it? You’re God.’ That’s the problem said God. I don’t see a ring, a nugget and a seal. All I see is gold.” - Deepak Chopra

64. “They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches. This is what any religious texts teach us. They’re all tales about characters who must confront life and overcome obstacles, figures setting off on a journey of spiritual enrichment through exploits and revelations.” - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

65. “Jesus doesn't hold back with Nicodemus.Following Jesus would require a commitment that would cost Nicodemus a great deal....In fact, it's true throughout all of Scripture....Following Jesus isn't something you can do at night where no one notices. It's a twenty-four-hour-a-day commitment that will interfere with your life. That's not the small-print--that's a guarantee.” - Kyle Idleman

66. “Let no-one define how you see yourself...save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are. But see yourself through your own eyes, and you'll be left to question, and to doubt, subject to the whims and wishes of others who will not have your best at heart.” - Tamera Alexander

67. “The apostle Paul wrote that he'd learned to be content in whatever circumstances he was in. I used to think I was content, but now I could see that my contentment was based upon how well I controlled the circumstances of my life, not upon my trust in a loving God.” - Robin Lee Hatcher

68. “It could take few drops of cooking oil to change your life, your neibourghs,your community, your village, your city, your county or your entire country.” - Euginia Herlihy

69. “It took just an ordinary stick to free the Jewish people.” - Euginia Herlihy

70. “Kalau bukan untuk bermanfaat, lalu buat apa kita hidup? Hidup sekali, berarti, lalu mati.” - Ahmad Rifai Rifan