Quotes about Religion
Every school that I have ever attended, except for kindergarten, I went to a Catholic institution.
— Blase J. Cupich
I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.
— Anne Lamott
Faith is never identical with piety.
— Karl Barth
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone. Piety is the possibility of the removal of the last traces of a firm foundation upon which we can erect a system of thought.
— Karl Barth
The Gospel is not a religious message to inform mankind of their divinity or to tell them how they may become divine. The Gospel proclaims a God utterly distinct from men.
— Karl Barth
Faith is never identical with "piety" even if it were the purest and finest.
— Karl Barth
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
— Karl Barth
Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is Himself the way
— Karl Barth
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Happiness is a mystery like religion, and it should never be rationalized.
— GK Chesterton
if you remove the cross from Christianity, all that remains is some wise moral teaching not terribly different from any other religion.
— Gary Thomas