Quotes About Religion

Nearly 60% of Americans who regularly attend Christian church say there is no such thing as the Holy Spirit—they say the Holy Spirit is just a symbol of God's power or presence or purity.

Modern witchcraft, she'd learned, was simply a religion that reveres nature.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

You give us long enough to argue over something and we will bring you in proofs to show that the Ten Commandments should never be ratified.

If heathen prayers were indeed the best of all, then mine should count big time.

In Gilead, the narrator's friend's son describes himself not as an atheist but in "state of categorical unbelief." He says, "I don't even believe God doesn't exist, if you see what I mean." I pointed this passage out to Mom and said it closely matched my own views--I just didn't think about religion.

I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.

In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

The false prophets belonged to the socially and religiously acceptable institution of "professional" prophets who responded to the needs of their time. They operated from within the limited perspectives of their contemporaries: Realpolitik and vox populi.

In elk geval komt er een tijd dat het christendom uit boekjes geleerd zal worden op school, net zoals men nu de mythologie van de Grieken en de Romeinen op school leert.

It is interesting to note that Senator Lodge, Crane's rival, was invincible in Essex County, the most northeasterly in the state, and Senator Crane was moated in Berkshire, the most southwesterly. Harvard and the Catholics and an urban civilization dominated the seaboard. A sophisticated Congregational industrialism—farms, fields, and workshops—gave color to the Republican cast of thought of western Massachusetts.

The first act of religion, therefore, concerns those things which are communicated to us from God. The other concerns those things which we yield to God.

From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between God and us the hearing of the word and prayer.

25. Superstition is that whereby undue worship is yielded to God.

To me, it seems that mankind can never achieve its highest potentialities till it has thrown off the incubus of historic (and prehistoric) religion.

On the day of Pentecost Christianity faced the world, a new religion, without a history, without a priesthood, without a college, without a people, and without a patron. She had only her two sacraments and her tongue of fire. The latter was her sole instrument of aggression.

In the primitive church were not prayers simple, unpremeditated, united; prayers of the well-taught apostle; prayers of the accomplished scholar; prayers of the rough but fervent peasant; prayers of the new and zealous convert; prayers which importuned and wrestled with an instant and irrepressible urgency; were they not an essential part of that religion, which holy fire had kindled; and which daily supplications alone could fan?

Religion has never, in any period, sustained itself except by the instrumentality of the tongue of fire. Only where some men, more or less imbued with this primitive power, have spoken the words of the Lord, not with " the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth," have sinners been converted, and saints prompted to a saintlier life.

A religion without the Holy Ghost, though it had all the ordinances and all the doctrines of the New Testament, would certainly not be Christianity.

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

Whenever religion becomes a depressing affair of burdens and prohibitions, it ceases to be true religion.