Religious Leader Quotes

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

The Sabbath day has become a day of pleasure, a day of boisterous conduct, a day in which the worship of God has departed, and the worship of pleasure has taken its place. I am sorry to say that many of the Latter-day Saints are guilty of this. We should repent.

Joseph Fielding Smith

They who get off on tangents and ride hobby horses to death are they who become fanatic. Let them understand that they must be tolerant of others faults but never accept as justifiable their own.

Spencer W. Kimball

Our duty is to preach the gospel to all men.... This is what God expects of us

John Taylor (Mormon)

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

Matthew F. Hale

Surely the Lord loves, more than anything else, an unwavering determination to obey his counsel.

Howard W. Hunter

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

Astrology is like any other branch of knowledge. It can be used for good or for ill, properly or improperly, by skilled and unskilled practitioners alike.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet

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

In many ways, the church seems to hate evil more than it loves good or even God.

Carlton Pearson

When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.

Faith only operates when linked with HIS purposes, and the first of them is to 'bless all families on earth'.

Reinhard Bonnke

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

Elijah Muhammad

Time management is only a set of skills and tools to help us more efficiently control the eventsour our lives.

In human relationships, as mutual love deepens, there comes a time when two friends convey their exchanges without words. They can sit in silence sharing an experience or simply enjoying each other's presence without saying anything.

You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

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

John Todd Ferrier

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

The East has always been very fortunate in being supported with a very strong foundation of Buddha Dharma.... The downside is that the changes of the modern world, and the East trying to keep up with the economic development—as we call call it—process often has distanced laymen from the Buddhist teachings. Livelihood and survival as well as the increase of material belongings has become so very strong, that oftentimes we find the seriousness with which Dharma is practiced is limited to monastic institutions.

Khandro Rinpoche

Examining your thoughts is an important part of the practice of self-reflections

Science, at its core, is simply a method of practical logic that tests hypotheses against experience. Scientism, by contrast, is the worldview and value system that insists that the questions the scientific method can answer are the most important questions human beings can ask, and that the picture of the world yielded by science is a better approximation to reality than any other.

John Michael Greer

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

Hartman Rector Jr.

Your life of indifference to the risen Christ and of halfhearted attention now and then to a few of his commandments will appear on that day as supremely blameworthy and infinitely foolish, and you will... weep that you did not change. 8

We teach that a person must practice only one cultivation way. No matter how you practice cultivation, you should not mess up your cultivation by adding other things.

There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created by these openings. In these divine moments key men and women and even entire generations risk everything to become the hinge of history, the pivotal point that determines which way the door will swing.