Quotes About Religion

Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease.

When the white man came, we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

Organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of the cautious, statistical Christ.

To be like Christ is to be a Christian.

Christianity is completed Judaism, or it is nothing.

His Christianity was muscular.

Christianity ruined emperors, but saved peoples.

I desire no other evidence of the truth to Christianity than the Lord's Prayer.

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity.

Unlike Christianity, which preached a peace that it never achieved, Islam unashamedly came with a sword.

Somewhere, and I can't find where, I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No', said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?'

Christians have burned each other, quite persuaded That all the apostles would have done as they did.

Christian: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbour.

Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practised.

Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.

Whenever God erects a house of prayer The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.

Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there is no God.

Shame arises from the fear of man; conscience from the fear of God.

I believe in the gods. Or rather, I believe that I believe in the gods. But I don't believe that they are great brooding presences watching over us; I believe they are completely absent-minded.