110 Quotes About Religion

Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.

Religion will cost us the tears of repentance and the blood of persecution.

The joy of religion is an exorcist to the mind; it expels the demons of carnal mirth and madness.

I love the people of Islam but their religion, I do not agree with their religion at all. And if you look at what the religion does just to women, women alone, it is just horrid. And so yes, I speak out for women. I speak out for people that live under Islam, that are enslaved by Islam and I want them to know that they can be free.

What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's.

A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a scientific faith.

...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the Gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won't be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ's righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.

For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.

Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred.

Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it. Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural world.

Recollection is the life of religion. The Christian wants to know no new thing, but to have his heart elevated more above the world by secluding himself from it as much as his duties will allow, that religion may affect its great end by bringing its sublime hopes and prospects into more steady action on the mind.

The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bath when used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into which one goes with reluctance, and is glad when able to get out.--But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element; he lives in it, and could not live out of it.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.

It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.

We are not quarrelling over religions at the front--we are fighting and dying for the folks who are doing that at home.

There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.

Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.

I do not believe Muslims were evil because of their faith, but as a minister, I believe it is my responsibility to speak out against the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching.

I'm no specialist in Islamic theology. I'll let those who are debate whether or not there is that kind of militancy and warrior culture within Islamic theology. But I want to say as a Christian theologian, the biggest problem with Islamic theology is that it kills the soul.

The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?

The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.

Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.

Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion: The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.

Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law.

I declare I know of no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and hard-heartedness of its professors.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.

When we compare biblical Christianity with the religions of the world, using the Scriptures to guide us, we see that the gap between them is unbridgeable. In fact, one is forced to the conclusion that there are really only two religions in the world: biblical Christianity--and all other religions.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of his age is slowly divorcing itself from it.

The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not Religiousness, but Love.

God is not a God of the gaps: This view of the deity is a parody on religion that has never been embraced by thinking man.

A religion which did not flatter the rich, the great, and the learned - a religion which offered no license to the carnal inclinations of man's heart - a religion whose first teachers were poor fishermen, without wealth, rank, or power - a religion could never have turned the world upside down, if it had not been of God.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb, don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone.

Disagreement is refreshing when two men lovingly desire to compare their views to find out truth. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right - a spirit in which no man gets at truth.

Religion is not a matter of chance, but of choice.

Jesus Christ says, 'Kill me and in 3 days, not only this temple, but all temples in the whole world will be out of business.' This is the most stunning thing any human being has ever said.

We are drifting toward a religion which consciously or unconsciously has its eye on humanity rather than on deity.

Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world.

Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.

Religion fails if it cannot speak to men as they are.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in Religion.

Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by supernatural law, for all law is Divine.

Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.