Quotes About Religion

Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Prayer is of no avail. The lightning falls on the just and the unjust in accordance with natural laws.

Let us keep the flame of faith alive through prayer and the sacraments: let us make sure we do not forget God.

Prayer is futility when compared to belief.

A school prayer amendment would confer upon public school boards a power the First Amendment now denies to Congress and the states, that is, the power to establish religion.

Prayers and sacrifices are of no avail.

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion.

I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

It appears that the Soviets are now going to allow prayer in school. One wonders how soon the United States will catch up.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.

Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

He was very religious; he believed that he had a secret pact with God which exempted him from doing good in exchange for prayers and piety.

Industrialism is the religion with 'the machine' as the god going to answer all the prayers. Communism and capitalism were just competing sects.

We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools, now we're having weekly shootings practically.

There are no atheists on turbulent airplanes.

Not thinking critically, I assumed that the successful prayers were proof that God answers prayer while the failures were proof that there was something wrong with me.