Quotes related to Galatians 5:1
Religion can be one of the greatest impediments to finding God.
— Anne Graham Lotz
The Church imposes nothing; she only proposes, she proposes like a lover to the beloved.
— Pope John Paul II
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
— Georgia Harkness
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
— John Adams
Let us be done with the notion that religion is confined to petty pieties and small constraints. All too often people who have possessed these pieties have wrought great evil.
— A Powell Davies
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
— Laurence Sterne
The religion then of every man must be left to the conviction and conscience of every man; and it is the right of every man to exercise it as these may dictate.
— James Madison
God requireth not an uniformity of Religion to be inacted and inforced in any civill state.
— Roger Williams
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.
— Philip Schaff
For many, religion has to do with what we are allowed to do and not allowed to do. In the end, that doesn't bear fruit.
— Henri Nouwen
Does a person have a right to change his or her own religion? This is a fundamental human right, just like a right to freedom of speech.
— Miroslav Volf
Religion is a very dangerous thing. By that I mean being so caught up in rules and regulations and not focusing on the thing that matters most- a personal relationship with God.
— Joyce Meyer