Quotes about Religion
Belief in Yahweh doesn't come with your mind. It comes with your heart. When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin
When you only believe in things you can see with your eyes and touch with your hands, it is idolatry.
— Lynn Austin
The only way to revive Temple worship is through repentance. The men of Judah must give up their idolatry and turn their hearts back to God.
— Lynn Austin
No, Missy. Ain't nothing wrong with being afraid—that's only human. But we need to give our fear to Massa Jesus instead of letting our imaginations run off with it.
— Lynn Austin
If you look at U.S. history through religious history, there is very much a motif that shows the importance religion has played in the U.S. We're a very religious country and it affects the way we look at various political issues.
— Madeleine Albright
It's one thing to be religious, but it's another thing to make religion your policy.
— Madeleine Albright
The purpose of his life, death, and resurrection was to ransom you from your sin, deliver you from the clutches of evil, restore you to God - so that his personality and his life could heal and fill your personality. Your humanity, and your life. This is the reason he came. Anything else is religion.
— John Eldredge
The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened.
— John Eldredge
All of us are partly living our story line the enemy offers us. Most of us, perhaps, live in not a terribly evil place in the moralistic sense of the word. We simply live where busyness, or apathy, or struggle with circumstances that won't change occupies most of our energy. And the enemy is perfectly happy to leave us in such a place practicing our religion.
— John Eldredge
That's exactly what we do to find more of God—we practice belief. We exercise it.
— John Eldredge
For the religious spirit is like the flu—it is constantly adapting to the environment.
— John Eldredge
Christianity is not a set of convictions—it is a truth. The most offensive thing imaginable.
— John Eldredge