Quotes about Religion

Some things that religious people make a big deal of are rather pointless. Avoid the insanity.

It's possible to resist the very growth and change and expanding consciousness that God desires for you by appealing to your religious convictions.

The writers of the scriptures consistently affirm that we're all part of the same family. What we have in common—regardless of our tribe, language, customs, beliefs, or religion—outweighs our differences.

First, I'm a Christian, and so Jesus is how I understand God. I realize that for some people, hearing talk about Jesus shrinks and narrows the discussion about God, but my experience has been the exact opposite. My experiences of Jesus have opened my mind and my heart to a bigger, wider, more expansive and mysterious and loving God who I believe is actually up to something in the world.

that matters is how you respond to Jesus. And that answer totally resonates with me; it is about how you respond to Jesus. But it raises another important question: Which Jesus?

First, I'm a Christian, and so Jesus is how I understand God.

As obvious as it is, then, Jesus is bigger than any one religion.

He will always transcend whatever cages and labels are created to contain and name him, especially the one called "Christianity.

Why would anybody become a Christian?" That's a question lots of people have—educated, reasonable, modern people who find becoming a Christian an "explosive," not to mention an inconceivable, thing to do.

I know it sounds cliche but I believe in an essential way, it's very true that being a Christian is having a relationship with God through Christ.

I believe a personal relationship with God is healthy, but organized religion has potential for danger, in whatever faith.

I have a very personal relationship with Jesus Christ. It doesn't depend on the fact that he can walk on water.