Quotes about Religion

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable.

Christian theology can fit in science, art, morality, and the sub-Christian religious. The scientific point of view cannot fit any of these things, not even science itself.

What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?

If it's bad art, it's bad religion, no matter how pious the subject.

True Christianity is nothing but the continual dependence upon God through Christ for all life, light, and virtue; and the false religion of Satan is to seek that goodness from any other source. So

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition.

I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.

I don't view it as mystic. I believe that God is our father. He created us. He is powerful because he knows everything. Therefore everything I learn that is true makes me more like my father in heaven. When science seems to contradict religion, then one, the other, or both are wrong, or incomplete. Truth is not incompatible with itself. When I benefit from science it's actually not correct for me to say it resulted from science and not from God. They work in concert.

Without revelation religion sinks back into a pernicious superstition.