Quotes about Religion

Not all of those who cry 'The poor, the poor!' will enter the kingdom of heaven.

The Pope, I hope, can only be scared by God.

What is especially important is addressing the question of how religion can be enforced through political means and what can be done to create a political environment that, on the one hand, acknowledges the role of religion in society, while on the other hand does not impose one religion on the populace at the expense of all others.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

One of the first courses I ever taught at Dartmouth was on the Bible as literature.

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by nation states, class systems, cultures and even religions. But often they are the last!

A nation that honors God will always be honored by God. I've seen nations that have dishonored God: God has been taken out of schools, the government, the military; and when you take Him out of a nation, how can you expect God to protect this nation?

I am a Christian. I haven't really talked about that before. It is something very private. But I do pray and my beliefs are very important to me.

My parents haven't reached out to me once. They're religious but not godly.

Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future.

That age of the church which was most fertile in subtle questions was most barren in religion; for it makes people think religion to be only a matter of cleverness, in tying and untying of knots.

People are so inoculated in childhood with small doses of Christianity that they seldom catch the real thing.