Quotes about Religion
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
— Seneca
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown.
— JC Ryle
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
Religion is like a knife: you can either use it to cut bread, or stick in someone's back.
— Desmond Tutu
We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.
— Franklin Graham
That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.
— Roger Williams
In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
— Timothy Keller
If your religion has not changed your life, you'd better change your religion.
— Adrian Rogers
This is the curse of superficial religion: the constant attempt to do outward things apart from inward transformation.
— David Platt
I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.
— Catherine Booth
Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.
— Thomas Jefferson