Quotes about Religion
Practical religion consists in doing good: and the only way of serving God is that of endeavoring to make His creation happy. All preaching that has not this for its object is nonsense and hypocrisy.
— Thomas Paine
One time, a Protestant minister said, "We made Jesus blonde haired and blue eyed and very cute. We made Jesus somehow a much more feminine figure." And there's probably truth to that.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Christians must be Jews. The truth of what we believe depends on the truth of Judaism, depends on the first covenant.
— Michael Novak
I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
— Marianne Williamson
Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .
— John Piper
This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.
— Henry David Thoreau
If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.
— St. Augustine
If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God.
— CS Lewis
As a child, I came across the Bible, but nobody in my family had anything to do with religion. I just felt a profound truth there that appealed to me.
— Dorothy Day
Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.
— GK Chesterton
Among the Jews, especially in the Old Testament, teachings served not for the communication of religious truth, but rather to bring the one taught into direct confrontation with the Divine Will.
— Gordon Fee
Ev'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones.
— John Milton