Quotes About Religion

When you've got too much religion that you can't mingle with people, that you're afraid of certain people, you've got too much religion. C. L. Franklin, from a 1955 sermon

One sees in God only what one worships.

doubt if there was anything to choose in the fanatical temper of their minds between Savonarola and Torquemada.

Their religion was never something they talked about, aside from offering a brief grace at big meals. They simply tried to abide by the Ten Commandments as best they could, with occasional lapses of racism and prejudice and fractured promises of fidelity.

Clearly, God is a Democrat.

This is all the inheritance I give to my dear family. The religion of Christ will give them one which will make them rich indeed.

That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

This is all the Inheritance I can give to my dear Family. The Religion of Christ can give them one which will make them rich indeed.

It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains.

I have now disposed of all my property to my family. There is one thing more I wish I could give them, and that is the Christian Religion. If they had that and I had not given them one shilling they would have been rich; and if they had not that and I had given them all the world, they would be poor.

Islamic killers are over here because we are over there.

The death of European Christianity means the disappearance of the European tribe, a prospect visible in the demographic statistics of every Western nation.

You perhaps take up religion bitterly which you laughes at in your youth, well not actually laughed, but it wasn't your kind of truth.

And you perhaps take up religion bitterly which you laughed at in your youth, well not actually laughed but it wasn't your kind of truth.

There was a deep wisdom behind the orgiastic and hysterical aspects of ancient religion; there is much to be said in favour of this flinging open of the floodgates to grief. It might be argued that the decorous little services of the West, the hushed voices, the self-control, our brave smiles and calmness either stifle the emotion of sorrow completely, or drive it underground where it lodges and proliferates in a malign and dangerous growth that festers for a lifetime.

It seems at times that strife can no more be separated from monotheism than stripes from a tiger.

The people of North America have little idea of religion, but they have strict public morality. The Latin people are without morality but they are highly religious.

Once we had the Protestant ascendancy,' Cor Mogaill said. 'Now it's the Catholic ascendancy. And they both rule with the same mixture of self-interest and cynicism.

Even a Marxist can misquote Scripture for his purpose.

He should have known that the Irish, in spite of a handful of anti-clerical writers, were by nature priest-servers.

We live in a profoundly religious country, and we are a prosperous people. But we are also a broken people—a people who have pursued the God of our own imaginations, believing we can re-create His character to suit our own practical problems. The result? We are the most religious nation in the world, but, like the Laodiceans, many are lukewarm.

Faith is belief without proof.

But the truth was that most residents still lived in neighborhoods circumscribed by religion, and more than 90 percent of children in Northern Ireland continued to attend segregated elementary schools.