Quotes About Faith

When religion controls government, political liberty dies; and when government controls religion, religious liberty perishes.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

Religion is never devoid of emotion, any more than love is. It is not a defect of religion, but rather its glory, that it speaks always the language of feeling.

Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears.

There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him.

God has somehow placed into Christian's insides a special something, that extra inner reservoir of power that is more than a match for the stuff life throws at us.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Don't hold on to religion and miss the joy of knowing Jesus.

I should like to repeat what I stated recently in the Jeddah Economic Forum in Saudi Arabia: It won't be the religion, but rather the world-view of some of its followers that shall be made current.

Islam is more than a religion, it's much more than a religion, it's a way of life, it is a one party political system that has a very elaborate legal system that can put you to death if you leave it.

In matters of religion, it is very easy to deceive a man and very hard to undeceive him.

I shall never be converted, and I shall remain true to my old religion of the classics until my life's end.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

The Bible. That is what fools have written, what imbeciles commend, what rogues teach and young children are made to learn by heart.

The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.

The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.

Inculcating the various competing - competing, note - falsehoods of the major faiths into small children is a form of child abuse, and a scandal.

Ignorance is the soil in which belief in miracles grows.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Without implementation, all of our Bible studies are worthless.