Quotes about Religion
Jesus didn't care about a "holy table" as the religious establishment defined "holy." For Jesus a holy table was one that was open to anyone, a table where all God's children were present.
— Leonard Sweet
Jewish males prayed a daily prayer of thanksgiving, which ended: Praise be to God who has not made me a non-Jew. Praise be to God who has not made me an ignorant person. Praise be to God who has not made me a woman.68
— Leonard Sweet
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
— Edmund Burke
I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.
— John Newton
Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone - except God.
— Billy Graham
Religion and virtue are the only foundations, not of republicanism and of all free government, but of social felicity under all government and in all the combinations of human society.
— John Adams
Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.
— Ray Comfort
If you want to know what a given society believes in, look at what its largest buildings are devoted to.
— Joseph Campbell
A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.
— CS Lewis
Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.
— CS Lewis
One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.
— Carl Jung