Annie Besant Quotes

We eat, drink, and sleep religion, but we do not do good.

Every act of his life is, in a very real sense, a religious act.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Much prayer, but no piety.

Be ...a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes...

Much though he recites the sacred texts, but acts not accordingly, that heedless man is like a cowherd who only counts the cows of others - he does not partake of the blessings of the holy life.

Religion without humanity is very poor human stuff.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Faith is never identical with piety.

Christianity is entitled to the tribute of respect. I do not of course mean that all individuals, nominally Christian, deserve trust, confidence, or even respect, for the contrary is too often the case. Too often, men hold religion as they do property - in their wives' names.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Fear God and work hard.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died.

I'm often asked what I think about the faith of the President George W. Bush. I think it is sincere. I think it's very real. I think it's deeply held.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Let us not seek to bring religion to others, but let us endeavor to live it ourselves.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them.

Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

Religion must mainly be a matter of principles only. It cannot be a matter of rules. The moment it degenerates into rules, it ceases to be a religion, as it kills responsibility which is an essence of the true religious act.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Our sincere desire should be to have both clean hands and a pure heart - both a remission of sins from day to day and to walk guiltless before God.