Quotes about Religion

When there's something in the Bible that churches don't like, they call it 'legalism.'

You may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

You can't be perfect. No one is. That's why we need God.

Our form of government has no sense unless it is founded in a deeply felt religious faith, and I don't care what it is.

The Wetheralls always went to church. They belonged to the vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; . . . atheism is against, not only our reason but our instincts.

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.

Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world. But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Before the Christian religion had, as it were, humanized the idea of the divinity, and brought it somewhat nearer to us, there was very little said of the love of God.