Quotes About Religion

Let every man come to God in his own way.

Faith means a sanctified imagination, or the imagination applied to spiritual things.

A week filled up with selfishness, and the Sabbath stuffed full of religious exercises, will make a good Pharisee, but a poor Christian. There are many persons who think Sunday is a sponge with which to wipe out the sins of the week. Now, God's altar stands from Sunday to Sunday, and the seventh day is no more for religion than any other. It is for rest. The whole seven are for religion, and one of them for rest.

Religion would save a man; Christ would make him worth saving.

That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith.

How many there are that spend their lives in the midst of all the pleasing trifles of that vast museum of curiosities which are labeled religious, and think themselves Christians!

Many men carry their religion as a church carries its bell--high up in a belfry, to ring out on sacred days, to strike for funerals, or to chime for weddings. All the rest of the time it hangs high above reach--voiceless, silent, dead.

A man has a right to picture God according to his need, whatever it be.

It makes a great deal of difference what sort of God men believe in.

Religion is the whole soul marching heavenward to the music of joy and love, with well-ranked faculties, every one of them beating time and keeping tune.

Some men want to have religion like a dark lantern, and carry it in their pocket, where nobody but themselves can get any good from it.

Religion is only another word for the right use of a man's whole self, instead of a wrong use of himself.

The church is no more religion than the masonry of the aqueduct is the water that flows through it.

Take from the Bible the Godship of Christ, and it would be but a heap of dust.

The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.

Men think religion bears the same relation to life that flowers do to trees. The tree must grow through a long period before the blossoming time; so they think religion is to be a blossom just before death, to secure heaven. But the Bible represents religion, not as the latest fruit of life, but as the whole of it--beginning, middle, and end. It is simply right living.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

The object of a religion or a philosophy is not to make men wealthy or powerful, but to make them, in the last issue, happy: that is, to fulfil their being.

That's because they don't know,' said Tyburn. 'It's like economics. Everybody's got a theory, and some people make it their religion.

Phillip told me proudly that his mum had ceased to be a practicing Catholic the day after he came out. "She says she will go back to the Church the day it apologizes," he said.

My mum was raised Jewish, my dad is very scientifically minded, and my school was vaguely Christian. We sang hymns in school. I liked the hymns bit, but apart from that, I can take it or leave it. So I had lots of different influences when I was younger.

Whenever a religious movement has gained the reins of governmental power, individual liberties are strangled.

I've wasted the last five years of my life dealing in religious articles. People today find spiritual solace in ballroom dancing.

The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.