Quotes about Religion

Non è l'atto religioso che fa il cristiano, ma la sua partecipazione al dolore di Dio nella vita del mondo.

All that matters is whether one opts for Christ - not Christian opinions.

Only when I forgo visible proof, do I believe in God.

God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, or science has been surmounted and abolished; and the same thing has happened in philosophy and religion (Feuerbach!). For the sake of intellectual honesty, that working hypothesis should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated.

We say that religion is a matter of mood: we must wait until the mood strikes us. And then we often wait for years —perhaps until the end of our life—until we are once again in the mood to be religious. This idea is based on a great illusion. It is alll well and good to let religion be a matter of mood, but God is not a matter of mood. He is still present even when we are not in the mood to meet with him.

The gift of Christ is not the Christian religion but the grace and love of God, which culminate in the cross.

The American Revolution was characterized by three basic freedoms: economic freedom or capitalism, political freedom or constitutional democracy, and freedom of speech and religion. These are the freedoms that, in their original form, American conservatives seek to conserve.

When spirituality is divorced from theology it speedily deteriorates into sentimentality.

By a true religion or a true spirituality I mean one that is anchored in a vital faith in the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Cor 1:3) and leads us into a caring concern for the welfare of our neighbor, even above the perfecting of our own souls. The focus of true spirituality is on God's holy love, not on humanity's spiritual fulfillment.

Spirituality is inseparable from theology. Indeed, it could be defined as the living out of theology.

If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God.

I am not a Christian because God changed my life; I am a Christian because of my convictions about who Jesus Christ is.