Quotes about Religion
Peor and Baalim forsake their temples dim.
— John Milton
There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution.
— John Milton
understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.
— John Newton
Obviously Christianity is the one true faith, but if Islam is correct, u are fucked. I mean you are power fucked." - John Oliver to Alex McFarland
— John Oliver
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substnace of all false religion in the world.
— John Owen
God without Christ is no God.
— John Piper
Jesus came into the world with good news, not bad news. He does not call us to a willpower religion that feels only duty and no delight. He calls us to himself and to his Father. Therefore, he calls us to joy. Of course, it is not joy in things. Jesus is not preaching a health, wealth, and prosperity gospel—one of America's most lamentable exports to the world. It is joy in God and in his Son.
— John Piper
Doing right for right's sake is atheistic.Christians should do what God says is right because in doing it we enjoy more of God.
— John Piper
The more diverse the people groups who forsake their gods to receive the grace of the true God and follow Christ, the more visible is the superior beauty and power of Christ over all his competitors.
— John Piper
There are two ways of recommending true religion and virtue in the world, which God hath made use of: the one is by doctrine and precept; the other by instance and example.
— John Piper
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful and the most pernicious that have ever afflicted mankind.
— John Quincy Adams
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
— John Updike