Quotes about Religion

There is superficial conflict but deep concord between science and theistic religion, but superficial concord and deep conflict between science and naturalism.

In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility. (If we can be wrong, however, we can also be right.)

The sensus divinitatis is a belief-producing faculty (or power, or mechanism) that under the right conditions produces belief that isn't evidentially based on other beliefs.

To show that there are natural processes that produce religious belief does nothing, so far, to discredit it; perhaps God designed us in such a way that it is by virtue of those processes that we come to have knowledge of him.

The Reformed epistemologist may concur with Calvin in holding that God has implanted in us a natural tendency to see his hand in the world around us; the same cannot be said for the Great Pumpkin, there being no Great Pumpkin and no natural tendency to accept beliefs about the Great Pumpkin.

Faith is the belief in the great things of the gospel that results from the internal instigation of the Holy Spirit.

The Puritans were obsessed with the dangers of wealth.

I'm a serious Christian. I take my faith seriously. I try to practice it every day of the week, not just on Sunday.

Let's let everybody believe what they want to believe. And that means, P.C. police, don't you be coming down on people who believe in God and who believe in Jesus.

We realize there is no political party or politician who fully takes into consideration the issues the church is about. This is nothing new to us.

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.