Quotes about Religious

Remember civil and religious liberty always go together: If the foundation of the one be sapped, the other will fall of course.

The entrance to the bottom floor was on the south side of the temple. A stairway led up to the middle level, and from there to the third floor.

Because of this, the Jews tried all the harder to kill Him. Not only was He breaking the Sabbath, but He was even calling God His own Father, making Himself equal with God.

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.

The cross is a paradoxical religious symbol because it inverts the world's value system with the news that hope comes by way of defeat, that suffering and death do not have the last word, that the last shall be first and the first last.

And they went up to Him again and again, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and slapping Him in the face.

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

So Haggai asked, “If one who is defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?” “Yes, it becomes defiled,” the priests answered.

The test of a man's religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.

Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jews began to persecute Him.

The claim advanced in Christianity is of that magnitude: Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation. Now

You are never to use this formula to make incense for yourselves; you shall regard it as holy to the LORD.