Quotes about Religion

The Word didn't become flesh to establish a new religion. He became one of us to restore a broken relationship. He came to restore the true worship of God, which doesn't presume to earn His blessing through good deeds but rejoices in the unmerited favor He delights to give. Unfortunately, the roots of pride run deep into our flesh; therefore, the ability to accept grace does not come naturally, only supernaturally.

To many, God is not someone you know but something you try to get off your back.

I try not to be religious. That sounds stuck-up. Like you just follow rules. I read somebody once who said religion is man's way to God. We make a list to follow that makes us good people in our own eyes, but we don't take into account what God wants.

The trouble with my wife began when she needed Jesus and I needed a cat.

Don't be misled by those who claim God doesn't exist, because He does.

What I do believe in is the moral code of Christianity.

One sees in Latin America, and also elsewhere, among many Catholics a certain schizophrenia between individual and public morality.

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

The Book of Mormon Is the Word of God.

Shallow believers prefer a shallow God.

It is this rattling I believe that affects the second point: our uneasiness with our own feelings of foreignness, our own rapidly fraying sense of belonging. To what do we pay greatest allegiance? Family, language group, culture, country, gender? Religion, race? And if none of these matter, are we urbane, cosmopolitan, or simply lonely? In other words, how do we decide where we belong? What convinces us that we do? Or put another way, what is the matter with foreignness?

You know, the kind who know Jesus by His first name, but out of politeness never use it even to His face.