Quotes About God

The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. The clear proof of a person's love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.

If God allows proof that he exists he robs people of faith and without faith what is God? Nothing.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

Religion is entirely a personal matter. Each one could approach his Creator as he liked.

Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.

I don't follow any organized religion, but I do believe in the idea of god as a verb - being love and light. And that we are part of everything as everything is part of us.

Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.

I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.

What is god, what is not god, what is between man and god, who shall say?

Reasons for declaring belief is not are not the same as reasons for believing in god.

I take the assumption that every religion has been rooted in some mystical or transcendent experience. From that assumption, I just look at all the different systems as metaphors or doorways to God.

The God of metaphysics is but an idea. But the God of religion, the Maker of heaven and earth, the sovereign Judge of actions and thoughts, is a power.

I don't feel any part of religion. I think the Bible is God's gift of salvation that He gave me because I trusted in Him when I was six year-old. It was a gift and I didn't earn it.

You may be frustrated with religion, but don't take that out on God.

Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.

Communists disavow the existence of God and religion. They hate it, because it's a competitor.

No religion has ever been greater than its idea of God.

We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?

The God of religion exists only in our minds. The real God exists but we can never comprehend him in our minds

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

Religion is the highest vanity.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

The Bible is a book of faith, and a book of doctrine, and a book of morals, and a book of religion, of especial revelation from God.