Quotes About Religion

As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

No man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast.

Revilest thou God's high priest?

Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers.

Refuse profane and old wives' fables.

I believe in God; I just don't trust anyone who works for him.

Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD.

There are three religious truths: 1) Jews do not recognize Jesus as the Messiah. 2) Protestants do not recognize the Pope as the leader of the Christian faith. 3) Baptists do not recognize each other in the liquor store or at Hooters.

I [Paul] am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee.

No man hath seen God at any time.

Christianity is not a religion; it's an industry.

They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Introibo ad altare Dei [I will go in to the altar of God].

I am the Lord thy God.

Deus vult [God wills it].

Until one nation ceases its attempts to dominate another, there will never be true freedom. Until one religion relinquishes its quest to prove its god superior to that of another, there shall never be world peace. We will never truly prosper or experience lasting harmony, until we refrain from preaching the gospel of our own moral values and our personal preferences by forcing it upon others.

The chief trouble with the Churches is that they cannot make the truth about this world fit in with their theology.

Her service to others had done more for her spiritual welfare all the outward display of congregational religion, which so is but outward display.

Christianity is distinguished by the remarkable characteristic that it is the only world religion which begins by discarding its own founders's creed.

God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

A country that was able to suppress religion entirely and executed dissenters on the merest suspicion was unable to get welders to wear goggles. At

Everybody was talking about the religious man who committed suicide. While no one in the monastery approved of the man's action, some say they admired his faith. Faith?" said the Master. He had the courage of his convictions, didn't he?" That was fanaticism, not faith. Faith demands a greater courage still: to reexamine one's convictions and reject them if they do not fit the facts.

Certainty is the culprit. The spiritual person knows uncertainty—a state of mind unknown to the religious fanatic.