Quotes about Religion
God is not interested in our public displays of piety. He's not interested in religion in terms of the outward show. He's interested in godliness.
- RC Sproul
Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
- JC Ryle
Justification by faith is the hinge on which all true religion turns.
- John Calvin
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
- Albert Einstein
Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.
- Carl Sagan
One can be coerced to church, but not to worship.
- Georgia Harkness
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
- Hannah More
Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.
- Deepak Chopra
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
- John Adams