Quotes About Religion

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

People who practise a religion have been found to be happier, healthier and less stressed than those who don't.

Religion, Credit, and the Eye are not to be touched.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins and tendons.

The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.

Zen is a totally different kind of religion. It brings humanness to religion. It is not bothered about anything superhuman; its whole concern is how to make ordinary life a blessing.

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Make me chaste and To what excesses will men not go for the sake of a religion in which they believe so little and which they practice so imperfectly!

Regardless of whether or not you belong to a majority religion, in the United States you may not impose your theology on civil law.

Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish in the absence of an idolatrous theology.

Mountains had taken the place of religion, had satisfied her religious sense, her need for adoration and worship as no service in any Cathedral, however sublime, had been able to do.

I broke with my religion in college.

Civil religion gives American culture its direction and defines its fundamental values, but it does not determine the diversified contents of American national culture.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

How can we be so confident that we are correct about the religion of Islam that it is really different in this insidious way and people 50 years from now, people aren't going to back on.

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven.

Once the Roman Catholic Church in the West became the church most closely connected with the state, the Roman Catholic Church did not recognize the validity of any religion other than its own.