Quotes About Religion

I go to mass every Sunday, but love going to mosques too. Muslims pray in a beautiful way.

If you don't love your mother you go straight to hell.

The only unhappiness is not to love God.

In the first decade of my life, I came to know and love God, as I was raised in a Christian home and community.

We do have a neighbor with a two-man rowboat lashed on top of the porch roof, all ready to go if the water rises - but that's Billy Mack, and he started his own religion in the garage, so he's got a lot more going on than just an extreme concern for personal safety.

Art is not religion, 'it doesn't even lead to religion.' But in the time of distress which is ours, the time when the gods are missing, the time of absence and exile, art is justified, for it is the intimacy of this distress: the effort to make manifest, through the image, the error of the imaginary, and eventually the ungraspable, forgotten truth which hides behind the error.

Science and religion have in common the aim of seeking and achieving unity. Most scientists today are being led increasingly away from the fundamental aim of science to achieve unity into rather limited ways of thinking without much open-mindedness, doing things merely to meet limited material needs.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I don't know how anyone can appreciate devotion that slavish. It's not objective. I have a similar issue with religion.

It was Milton," he certificatively added, "who converted me to diabolism." "Diabolism? Oh, yes? Really?" said I, with that vague discomfort and that intense desire to be polite which one feels when a man speaks of his own religion. "You—worship the devil?" Soames shook his head. "It's not exactly worship," he qualified, sipping his absinthe. "It's more a matter of trusting and encouraging.

God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus.

The wizard [of Oz] says look inside yourself and find self. God says look inside yourself and find [the Holy Spirit]. The first will get you to Kansas. The latter will get you to heaven. Take your pick.

Mark it down. God does not save us because of what we've done. Only a puny god could be bought with tithes. Only an egotistical god would be impressed with our pain. Only a temperamental god could be satisfied by sacrifices. Only a heartless god would sell salvation to the highest bidders.

To quote John MacArthur: "As far as the way of salvation is concerned, there are only two religions the world has ever known or will ever know—the religion of divine accomplishment, which is biblical Christianity, and the religion of human achievement, which includes all other kinds of religion, by whatever names they may go under."3

Jesús vino a salvarnos, no solo de la política, los enemigos, los retos o las dificultades. Él vino a salvarnos de nuestros propios pecados.

Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit." He counsels the arrogant that facing Christ is like entering the Church of the Nativity: "The door is so low, you can't go in

Pablo tenía sangre en sus manos y diplomas religiosos en su pared. Pero entonces llegó el momento en el camino a Damasco. Jesús apareció. Y una vez Pablo vio a Jesús, ya no pudo ver más.

faith: faith is the deeply held belief that God will keep his promises

Legalism leaches joy.

You make irreligion a religion. Leave the hypocrites up to me.

How many churches today find themselves paralyzed in the upper room? How many congregations have just enough religion to come together, but not enough passion to go out. If the doors aren't locked, they might as well be. Upper room futility - a little bit of faith but very little fire.

He never went to church, which Bailey and I thought also proved he was a very courageous person. How great it would be to grow up like that, to be able to stare religion down..

Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.

Momma, always self-conscious at public displays of emotions not traceable to a religious source, told me to come with her and we'd bring the bread and bowls.