Quotes About Religion

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

A charity which knows only how to give money is not yet Christian love. You will be free of guilt only when you also give your time, your energy, and your resourcefulness to help end such abuses for good, and when you allow nothing that lies hidden in the storehouse of your Christian religion to remain unused against the cancer that is destroying the vitality of our society in such alarming ways.

Calvinism is an all-embracing system of principles... It is rooted in a form of religion which was peculiarly its own, and form that specific religious consciousness there was developed first a particular theology, then a special church-order, and then a given form for political and social life.

Religion demands above all the concentration of the spirit...it is a thrusting into the unity of all things so as to come to grips in the hiddenness of the soul with the unity of the One from Whom it all comes.

Nevertheless, in whatever form idolatrous religion appeared, precisely because it was derived from the external, and increasingly lost the factor of spiritual revelation, it could develop in no other way than in visible forms.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other.... The prayers of both could not be answered--that of neither has been answered fully.

Religion will always have a future because it is an expression of the profound search for the meaning of life and a consequence of introspection and encounters with Him. As long as life continues to be a mystery and man wonders who created the natural order—while those questions, which I believe will be eternal, persist— the concept of religion will endure as a manifestation of the urgent calling to understand who we are.

Apparently, Marx said that religion was the opium of the masses. It kept the oppressed from complaining or trying to change things.

What a bad idea it had been to give the Bible to anyone but priests, Ghosh thought. It made a preacher out of everybody.

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.

What use is revelation or religion if it doesnt change anything?

God helps those who fear Him.

When the friar answered that the good ones did, Hatuey at once answered that he preferred hell, "so as not to be where Spaniards were.

Jun Do held the book, felt its soft cover. "I could read some with you," she said. "Do you know of Christ?" Jun Do nodded. "I've been briefed on him.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

When God is dead, kindness is permitted. When God is dead, kindness is all that people have.

I think church and state should remain entirely separate at all costs, and that the decision of religious marriage should be of each faith to debate and decide free of political influence.

the Galtons were Quakers and gunsmiths, which might seem an unlikely combination given that religion's commitment to nonviolence. Francis was born to Samuel Galton and Frances Darwin in 1822

Most cultures agree that killing other people is forbidden, and it is even enshrined in the Abrahamic commandments, though it seems this is interpreted as more of a guideline than a rule, given the enthusiasm with which the disciples of Christ and Muhammad have engaged with the snuffing out of other people's light.

The relationship of compositional history to religious faith is not a simple one. If Moses is the human author of Genesis, nothing ensures that God is its ultimate Author. If J, E, P, and various equally anonymous sources and redactors are its human authors, nothing ensures that God is not its ultimate Author.

Had possession of the land remained central to the covenant during the exile, Israelite religion would have collapsed. By concluding the Torah with Deuteronomy and not Joshua, the fulfillment of the Torah is defined as obedience to the requirements of covenantal law rather than the acquisition of a finite possession.

The most stupid man is not the one who acts or speaks improperly, but he who consigns the steering wheel of his destiny to a religious man.

Jika masyarakat sudah dibuat tidak meyakini kebenaran ajaran agama, maka yang akan dijadikan pegangan adalah akal manusia semata atau hawa nafsu mereka. Tidak ada standar kebenaran. Pada ketika itulah masyarakat akan terseret ke dalam arus nilai yang serba relatif dan temporal. Kebenaran tergantung pada kesepakatan. Agama tidak diberi hak untuk campur tangan untuk menentukan baik dan buruk di tengah masyarakat. (Hal.17)