Quotes About Religion

For I shall never advise a heathen or a Turk, let alone a Christian, to attack another or begin war.

He who has once forsaken God finds it impossible to abide by one definite deity, that is, in one religion or definite worship of God, just as there is an infinite succession of sins through unbelief, or the loss of faith. It

Church and State are both rent, by the tugging of the demonic and the Divine

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace into idolatry.

Wer ein Christ sein will, der steche seiner Vernunft die Augen aus.

Thus a Christian, being consecrated by his faith, does good works; but he is not by these works made a more sacred person, or more a Christian.

Hence every external worship and religion is dregs, which alone are left to be drunk by those who by it exalt themselves over others.

For if the light of the Word is destroyed, then all will again be wrapped in the horrible darkness of the Turk or the pope or other heretics. This

I rejoice greatly that the simple faith of this sacrament is still to be found, at least among the common people. For as they do not understand, neither do they dispute whether accidents are present without substance, but believe with a simple faith that Christ's body and blood are truly contained there, and leave to those who have nothing else to do the argument about what contains them.

all the popes, monks and priests were to fuse all the matter of their preaching into one mass, they would not even then teach and present as much as St.

115. Learn, then, what a hypocrite is; namely, one who lays claim to the worship of God and to charity, and yet, at the same time, destroys the worship of God and slaughters his brother.

Hence the German proverb: "All mischief begins in the name of God.

The present facts are that the world is insane and rages when we confess Christ and believe in Him.

God alone can create and preserve faith in us. God creates faith in us through the Word. He increases, strengthens and confirms faith in us through His word. Hence the best service that anybody can render God is diligently to hear and read God's Word.

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

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power; religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals.

In Ecclesiastul scrie <>;dar neavand nicodata fericirea sa merg la catehism cu ceilalti copii, nu am fost prevenit de pericolele studiului. Crestinii au mare noroc ca sunt de foarte tineri pusi in garda impotriva riscului inteligentei; ei vor sti, toata viata sa se fereasca de ea. Fericiti cei saraci cu duhul.

Alcoolul este legat de istoria omenirii ÅŸi c? num?r? mai mulÅ£i adepÅ£i decît creÅŸtinismul, budismul ÅŸi islamismul la un loc.

My whole life has been movies and religion. That's it. Nothing else.

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Well, I think that Catholicism's basic foundation of faith is personal conscience. I think it's between you and God, not you and the Church.

Keith Thomas' Magic and the Decline of Religion (1971).