Quotes about Religion
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Powerless religion may put a man through many surface changes and leave him exactly what he was before.
- AW Tozer
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
- Charles Spurgeon
I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.
- John Keats
There is in superstition a senseless fear of God; religion consists in the pious worship of Him.
- Cicero
In France, religion had been considered the enemy of liberty, but in America, as George Washington expressed it, religion and morality were the 'twin pillars of freedom.'
- James Kennedy
Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
- John Wesley
I love the religion of Christianity - which cometh from above - which is a pure, peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of good fruits, and without hypocrisy.
- Frederick Douglass
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
- James Freeman Clarke
As to religion a moderate stock will satisfy me. She must believe in god and hate a saint.
- Alexander Hamilton
It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
- Thomas Jefferson