Quotes about Religion

I am not sure how old I was when I began to worry about being saved, but it was sometime in my early teens.

A tattoo is graffiti on the temple of the body.

There is no substitute for marrying in the temple.

Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is—nor yet so good a Christian.

when good people do good, and evil people do evil, it is not surprising. But when good people do evil, it takes religion to do that.

To use a popular illustration, all other religions are spelled "D-O." That is, they are based on people doing something, through their struggling and striving, to somehow earn the good favor of God. [...] By contrast, Christianity is spelled "D-O-N-E," because it's based on what Jesus Christ has done for us on the cross.

Hazen thought for a moment, then concluded: "You know, even if all religions were figments of our imagination, I would choose Christianity, because it says you can be assured that you're right with God. There's no need for performance anxiety or laboring through lifetime after lifetime. As the Bible says in 1 John 5:13: 'I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life.

Is Christ being offensive when he says that he is the only way to God? Judging by the number of people who are offended, you'd better believe it! Is Christ being exclusive? That's a different question.

Christianity is different, first, because of grace; second, because it's testable; and third, because it paints a picture that matches the way the world is, in a way that other religions don't.

We see them reporting the words and actions of a man who called them to as exacting a level of integrity as any religion has ever known. They were willing to live out their beliefs even to the point of ten of the eleven remaining disciples being put to grisly deaths, which shows great character. "In terms of honesty, in terms of truthfulness, in terms of virtue and morality, these people had a track record that should be envied.

The currency of the gospel of religion is fear and imposition. The currency of the gospel of Christ is love and invitation.

How many Nicodemites are there in every corner of Christianity whose versitis has caused them to be more committed to words than to the Word Made Flesh? How many have made a religion of words and lost sight of God's Image-Made-Story?