Quotes about Religion
We were never created to settle for mere religion. Jesus did not die so that we could have a religious belief system - but rather a life-giving relationship with our Father.
- Christine Caine
The only business in the world bigger than gambling is religion...but gambling is not nearly so corrupt.
- J.R. Miller
True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.
- H Richard Niebuhr
A religion that is small enough for our understanding would not be big enough for our needs.
- Corrie Ten Boom
Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
- DH Lawrence
If you equate God's judgment with your judgment, you have a wrong religion.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Christianity is the only religion in the world where a man's God comes and lives inside of Him!
- Leonard Ravenhill
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
- Dorothy Day
"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.
- George Eliot
Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes.
- Pope John Paul II