Quotes About Religion

I think of religion as man's attempt to reach God, and you can't do that.

I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

When a man suffers from delusions he is described as mad but when a million do so they belong to a world religion

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

The man without religion is as a ship without a rudder.

Such an explication of Grace as sets men at liberty in morals, makes void the Law through Faith.

Religions which have any very strong hold over men's actions have generally some instinctive basis.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

According to your belief [Christian clergy], my kind of man — secular, prideful, agnostic and all the rest of it — is among the damned. I'm on my own. You've got your God.

I am basically a religious man.

In their religion they are so uneven, That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Theism tells men that they are the slaves of a God. Atheism assures men that they are the investigators and users of nature.

God cannot be found on a microscopic slide, but in the hearts of men.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

This Marxian sentence, repeated to the point of boredom, is misinterpreted. In reality [Karl] Marx was a "religious" man.

Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity.

My father's religious life was not Biblically centered. He was a saintly man, whom I could never emulate, so I went into scholarship rather than into the kind of pastoral activity that he pursued.

Man makes god in his own image.

'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say.

Is man God's biggest blunder, or is man's God?

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.