Quotes about Religion
I think the most challenging thing for me in my life and in the Bible is that we worship Jesus as the Prince of Peace. And America is constantly at war.
— Jimmy Carter
If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.
— Thomas Jefferson
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
— Oscar Wilde
The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.
— AW Tozer
The Old Testament is full of poetry, prophecies, chronicles, documentations, storytelling, fairytales.
— Amos Oz
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
— CS Lewis
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
— Abraham Kuyper
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
— Thomas Jefferson
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
— Brother Andrew
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
— Alexander Hamilton
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
— Pope Francis