Quotes About Religion

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

The day that this country ceases to be free for irreligion it will cease to be free for religion - except for the sect that can win political power.

Religion is only in the service of the people; it is not in the rosary and the prayer-carpet.

The religion of tomorrow will be less concerned with the dogmas of theology and more concerned with the social welfare of humanity.

Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.

Let the children...be carefully instructed in the principles and obligations of the Christian religion. This is the most essential part of education.

Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.

By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.

I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.

We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

God built the world, but he did not know it was round.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

When people can't handle God any more, they turn to religion.

If atheism spread, it would become a religion as intolerable as the ancient ones.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

I am not afraid of any god in the universe who would send me or any other man or woman to hell. If there were such a being, he would not be a god; he would be a devil.

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I'm grateful for believing in a religion that can naturally adapt to changing times yet uphold timeless values and principles.

No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.

Religion should be about your relationship with God, not what the church says you can and can't do.

Church and state should be separate, not only in form, but fact - religion and politics should not be mingled.