Quotes about Religion
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
- Thomas Jefferson
I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it.
- Mahatma Gandhi
The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Many people are trying to remove religion from public life. Under the banner of pluralism, cultural and political leaders are seeking to push all talk about God out of the public arena.
- Charles Colson
Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.
- John Henry Newman
The study and practice of law ... does not dissolve the obligations of morality or of religion.
- John Adams
Reason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The settled opinion here is that religion is essentially distinct from Civil Govt. and exempt from its cognizance; that a connection between them is injurious to both.
- James Madison
The only foundation for useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.
- Thomas Jefferson
Salvation is not a religion. It's not rules or regulations or rituals. Salvation is a relationship. That relationship doesn't begin when you get to Heaven; it begins here on Earth.
- Rick Warren
Too many instances there are of daring men, who by presuming to sound the deep things of religion, have cavilled and argued themselves out of all religion.
- Thomas a Kempis