Religious Leader Quotes

There can be no purity whilst the flesh of creatures is partaken of and inhumanity towards the creatures practised.

John Todd Ferrier

How many of us, who are engaged in the Lord's holy service, are secretly cherishing some proud purpose of excelling other men, of making a name, of securing money and applause.

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

Peace is not automatic. It is a gift of the grace of God. It comes when hearts are exposed to the love of Christ. But this always costs something. For the love of Christ was demonstrated through suffering and those who experience that love can never put it into practice without some cost.

Festo Kivengere

Reality is like a face reflected in the blade of a knife; its properties depend on the angle from which we view it.

The Prophet said: Prayer in congregation is twenty-five levels better than a prayer offered on one's own.

I would not seek to force people to live up to my ideals but rather love them into doing the thing that is right.

George Albert Smith

Notwithstanding, the disciples of Jesus, excepting John the Revelator, suffered ignominious deaths, they sowed the seed of the Gospel among, and conferred the Priesthood upon men, which remained for several generations upon the earth, but the time came when Paganism was engrafted into Christianity, and at last Christianity was converted into Paganism rather than converting the Pagans. And subsequently the Priesthood was taken from among men, this authority was re-called into the heavens, and the world was left without the Priesthood-without the power of God-without the Church and Kingdom of God.

Joseph F. Smith

Just as a tower defends a fortress, so humility of heart defends bodily chastity from the darts of fornication.

Anthony of Padua

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

Eddington's universe goes phut. Richard Tolman's can open and shut. Eddington's bursts without grace or tact, But Tolman's swells and perhaps may contract.

Freedom is not a self-preserving gift. It has to be earned, and it has to be protected.

No matter how dynamic a campus work, unless a whole church is "totally committed," the campus ministry's impact would be limited.

Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger.

The Lamb, and all His grief and smart,
Shall be the pleasure of my heart,
While it doth move in me;
And when that heart no more shall move,
My Spirit, finding her old Love,
Shall kiss Him tenderly.

Then you and I, and thousands more,
From this, and your, and every shore,
Shall each the other find:
Happy in that which always here,
When to the heart 'twas plain and clear,
The many members join'd.

And then, too, we shall think no more,
What we were used to think before;
Alas! how distant we!
The Blood will flow through every limb
On each of us from Him! from Him!
And we united be.

James Hutton (Moravian)

I am deeply interested in this work. I am anxious to encourage the people to press on in securing their genealogies and after doing so in laboring in our temples.

If the eternal King started in Bethlehem, so will anyone who follows Him.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

By our very endowment as children of an Eternal Father we have had implanted within our souls the urgency to be free. It is natural for us to want to be accountable for our own fates because there is a whispering within us confirming that this accountability is absolutely essential to the attainment of our eternal destiny.

God's great work in man takes place in the Interior. The order that appears and is shown outside is the work and effect of the order inside.

Francisco Palau

It is strange to hear people talk on humanitarianism, who are members of societies for prevention of cruelty to children and animals, and who claim to be God-loving men and women, but who, nevertheless, encourage by their patronage the killing of animals merely to gratify the cravings of appetite.

Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish

Desire may be compared to a minute seed. It is like a big banyan tree growing out of a seed, which is no bigger than a dot.

To be a gentleman does not depend upon the tailor or the toilet. Good clothes are not good habits. A gentleman is just a gentle-man, — no more, no less; a diamond polished, that was first a diamond in the rough.

William Croswell Doane

Being a Christian is not essentially about joining a church or being a nice person, but about following in the footsteps of Jesus, taking his teachings seriously, letting his Spirit take the lead in our lives, and in so doing helping to change the world from our nightmare into God's dream.

We who have Christ's eternal life need to throw away our own lives.