Quotes about Religion

I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith.

The whole life story of Jesus, on the human side, is the life story of One who lived by faith.

Love is no ingredient in a merely speculative faith, but it is the life and soul of a practical faith.

Let us not fool ourselves - without Christianity, without Christian education, without the principles of Christ inculcated into young life, we are simply rearing pagans.

You might as well try to hear without ears or breathe without lungs, as to try to live a Christian life without the Spirit of God in your heart.

To have faith in the Word, Scripture must not grasp us in our critical thought, but in the life of the soul.

The grace of God sets us free from a life of perfection, performing, and pretending.

The Puritans' sense of priorities in life was one of their greatest strengths. Putting God first and valuing everything else in relation to God was a recurrent Puritan theme.

I fear it's because religion is man's attempt to reach God, and when he feels he has succeeded, he cannot abide anyone else's claim to have done the same.

Christianity is not a religion, it's a relationship with God through Christ.

Seventeenth-century deism constructed a God who created a universe and then walked away to leave it running according to its natural laws and man's devices. Many people today are practical deists.

Well did the Puritan John Owen say, "Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness is the soul and substance of all false religion." Mortification must be done by the strength and under the direction of the Holy Spirit.