Quotes About Religion

To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law.

This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist.

Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

He objected to the barbarity of the Old Testament and questioned the authenticity of the New Testament. He said that "if Christ had meant to establish a new religion, he would have written it down himself.

L'Église espagnole est devenue la Putain des militaires épurateurs.

A melhor maneira para seguir não acreditando em nada é nos cercarmos de padres e freiras que acreditam demais.

Religion was not always a dread to me. For one of my great ambitions was to be a minister, and one of my favorite childish vocations was preaching. I see myself now, a pale-faced, anemic, slim chap of ten or eleven, with all the appearance but none of the habits of an ascetic, preaching to a congregation of empty chairs.

My faith in God rests on my faith in Christ as God manifest in the flesh -- not as God and man, but as God in man.

If I had only life's book to read ... I should not believe in a God of love. I should turn Persian, and believe in two gods, one of love and good-will, one of hate and malice.

Mere philanthropy and humanity ... are not religion. There must also be piety. The soul must live in the divine presence; must inhale the Spirit of God; must utter its contrition, its weaknesses, its wants, and its thanks-givings to its Heavenly Father.

A bad God is worse than no God at all.

So long as the creed is a window, and we see God through it, it is good ... but when men are content simply to believe in the creed, or in the church, or in the Bible, they are worshipping idols.

Let us get rid of this notion that we must always associate the thoughts of God with a spirit of great solemnity. Gayety and God are not mutually exclusive.

My faith in miracles rests also on my faith in Christ -- he himself a greater miracle by far than any attributed to him.

When a man begins to justify the ways of God to man, he has entered on a very dangerous process.

For to laugh is as religious as to weep; and smiles may bring us into the companionship of the Father no less than tears.

But when the thing that is scaring you is already Jesus, who are you supposed to pray to?

Luther argued that the Jews were a people who had been punished by God for 1,500 years, since the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem, because they did not recognize Jesus as the Messiah.

In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

People haven't changed much over the years. From what I've been reading, it looks like many of these religions make you have to work your way to paradise, or heaven, or whatever eternity means to them." "Good

Christianity isn't true because it works; it works because it's true.

Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.