Quotes about Religion
For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
— Alexander Hamilton
When it comes to spirituality, you do what you do because you believe what you believe. Regardless of the importance you consciously place upon it, theology drives and determines your spirituality.
— Donald Whitney
There was no attack on religion because people were generally indifferent to religion. They were neither hot nor cold. They were the tepid, the materialistic, who hoped that by Sunday churchgoing they would be taking care of the afterlife, if there were an afterlife. Meanwhile they would get everything they could in this.
— Dorothy Day
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
— DL Moody
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch the harmony of the new life.
— Phillips Brooks
One can believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ and feel no personal loyalty to Him at all - indeed, pay no attention whatever to His commandments and His will for one's life.
— Catherine Marshall
Just as a person, just in my life, the way I was raised, my grandmother made it very clear that God will make a way.
— Will Smith
Religion should be the rule of life, not a casual incident in it.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Antichrist is the pope and the Turk [Muslim] together. A beast full of life must have a body and soul. The spirit or soul of Antichrist is the pope, his flesh or body the Turk.
— Martin Luther
Every major question in history is a religious question. It has more effect in molding life than nationalism or a common language.
— Hilaire Belloc
I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Isn't it evident we need more God and fewer gimmicks?
— Jim Cymbala