Quotes about Religion

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

But let my due feet never fail to walk the studious cloisters pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight; casting a dim religious light.

I don't reject Christ. I love Christ. It's just that so many of you Christians are so unlike Christ.

People are so shocked when they find ... out I am Protestant. I am Presbyterian. And I go to church and I love God and I love my church.

This is all that I've known for certain, that God is love. Even if I have been mistaken on this or that point: God is nevertheless love.

I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament.

Hypocrisy itself does great honor, or rather justice, to religion, and tacitly acknowledges it to be an ornament to human nature. The hypocrite would not be at so much pains to put on the appearance of virtue, if he did not know it was the most proper and effectual means to gain the love and esteem of mankind.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Here, again, you find the unsoundness of many professors who consider themselves good Christians; they are partial in the law, and take up with the cheap and easy duties of religion, but go not through with the work. It may be you find them exact in their words, punctual in their dealings, but then they do not exercise themselves unto godliness; and as for examining themselves and governing their hearts, to this they are strangers.

The whole God thing is actually an ancient fairy tale that people have been telling one another for thousands of years. We made it all up. Like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny.

Classically, there are three ways in which humans try to find transcendence--religious meaning--apart from God as revealed through the cross of Jesus: through the ecstasy of alcohol and drugs, through the ecstasy of recreational sex, through the ecstasy of crowds. Church leaders frequently warn against the drugs and the sex, but at least, in America, almost never against the crowds.

Go figure out what this Scripture means: 'I'm after mercy, not religion.' I'm here to invite outsiders, not coddle insiders.