Quotes about Religion

Have you noticed that it is usually easier to judge than obey? Religious people are especially good at it. I tried

Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.

Religion is the metaphysics of the masses.

Hence, as John Owen said: Sin's proper formal object is God It hath, as it were, that command from Satan which the Assyrians had from their king: "fight neither with small nor great, save only with the king of Israel," that sin sets itself against. There lies the secret, the formal reason of all opposition to good, even because it relates unto God.... The law of sin makes not opposition to any duty, but to God in every duty.

To countless thousands, even among those professing to be Christians, the God of the Scriptures is quite unknown.

Even in Christendom the average churchgoer is fully satisfied if he learns by rote a few of the elementary principles of religion. By so doing he comforts himself that he is not an infidel, and since he believes there is a God (though it may be one which his own imagination has devised) he prides himself that he is far from being an atheist. Yet as to having any living, spiritual, influential and practical knowledge of the Lord and His ways he is a stranger, altogether unenlightened.

I'm starting to think that Jesus does love football.

Billy Graham isn't about politics - Billy Graham is about God.

I know that if you don't have Christ in your life then all the hope you have and the greatest thing you can gain is what you get from this earth.

Believe me, than in half the creeds.

If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

The clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers. [ Evangelical Teaching: Dr. Cumming, The Westminster Review, 1885. ]