Quotes About Religion

That is one of the flagrant misconceptions about Catholicism in America that if a man is a Catholic he owes allegiance to what they say a foreign sovereign, or something like that.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

If we should put god in the Constitution there would be no room left for man.

The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

Men reverence one another, not yet God.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.

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

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

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

All men have need of the gods.

Nothing but religious faith has been able to save men from despair.

If a man's religion does not affect his use of money, that man's religion is vain.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

It was God who dictated what man should believe and do, leaving man the freedom to accept or scoff, to obey or disregard.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

It is no natural for a man to pray that no theory can prevent him from doing it.

Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any Manner contrary to their conscience.

The man was the finest preacher. He could make a frog stand up straight and get happy with Jesus.

And you can't make a mistake when you are reading the Torah, so you have men standing around who will correct you if you are reading it incorrectly.