Quotes About Religion

When you look at the decline of church attendance in America, or when you look at the decline of millennials that are not going to church in America, you want to have the conversation that a lot of times people are hit more with religion and rules and the systems than they are with the love of God and having a personal relationship with Christ.

Don't let anybody fool you who says Islam can be moderated. It will not be moderated in a million years.

If I had a dollar for every time somebody said, 'I don't understand: how can you be a Democrat and be a Christian?' I'd be a millionaire.

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

I think of religion as something that stains the person. It's a mindset you can never get free from, it's always in the back of your head.

When I was young, I was dedicated to become a minister - my brothers and I were formally brought in front of the congregation in a dedication ceremony, where we were dedicated to the future service of God.

My father, Dines Pontoppidan, belonged to an old family of clergymen and was himself a minister.

My dad was a Methodist minister.

My father was a minister, so I was raised in the church.

I come from a lineage of ministers.

My mother was a minister, so I grew up in a church. My grandfather was a minister; there are a bunch of ministers in my family.

From the beginning, this has been a faith-based ministry.

I was in the ministry for some time. All my family is immersed in a black church in Memphis.

It has always been inevitable that, living as a small minority among a Christian majority, some Jews would convert to Christianity.

My mother was an unbeliever - and still is. My father was a nominal Catholic. We would go in to church at the last minute before the gospel reading, take Communion, and walk right out again.

1963 when President Diêm passed a law prohibiting his people from celebrating the Buddhist national holiday, many Vietnamese have understandably associated Christianity with foreign attempts to establish political and cultural domination.

To me, religious life is life. I do not see any reason to spend one's whole life tasting just one kind of fruit.

I do not think there is that much difference between Christians and Buddhists. Most of the boundaries we have created between our two traditions are artificial. Truth has no boundaries. Our differences may be mostly differences in emphasis.

Cuz all they have is bigotry and they're calling it Christianity.

Hayat tasavvurunun yüce sanat? gibi yaÅŸaman?n ve var olman?n daha yüce sanat?n?n da alaya al?nd???, kabare gibi bir dünyada ya??yoruz biz. Felsefe kabare gibi. Din kabare gibi. SavaÅŸ, devasa bir ceset y???n?, sayg?deÄŸer beyefendi, bütünüyle yalan bir k?ta, bugün tüm bunlar ÅŸaka.

He who puts on a religious demeanor abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be unmasked by God, and presented before all the world for a most detestable hypocrite.

The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc.

Satan is never better pleased, than when he sees Christians puzzled and perplexed about those things in religion, which are of no great consequence or importance.

In brief, where the Scripture is silent, the church is my text; where that speaks, 'tis but my comment; where there is a joint silence of both, I borrow not the rules of my religion from Rome or Geneva, but the dictates of my own reason.