Quotes About Religion

Sin is to faith what infidelity is to marriage.

Yes, organized religion is a crutch. You mean you didn't know that you are a cripple? If you don't know that, then you are a very serious cripple indeed, mentally and spiritually.

The good Jew, like the good Christian, sees behind the law to the Lawgiver, whose will is perfect love.

When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.

The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—is moral today.

sacramentally present at Mass—this Church is either God 's own or it is the devil's own.

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.

Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;

Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's

why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious:

We must distinguish the act of faith from the object of faith, believing from what is believed.

God is a God who speaks!

Literature in the West arose from liturgy.

Religion is not to go to God by forsaking the world but to find Him in it.

Religious people are often the most violent.

Christianity was useless if it forgot people and the here and now. Faith and belief, she felt, were no use without charity, love and compassion; religion was nothing if it focused entirely on the afterlife.

The problem with so much religious communication is that it aims at changing our minds. The result is that we can hear the message of the preacher without necessarily heeding the message; we can listen to the "truth" and agree with it, yet not change in response to it.

In contrast, the a/theistic approach can be seen as a form of disbelieving what one believes, or rather, believing in God while remaining dubious concerning what one believes about God (a distinction that fundamentalism is unable to maintain).

What we see taking place in the church today is the reduction of God to an idol.