Quotes about Religion

There may be many systems of religion that so far from being morally bad are in many respects morally good: but there can be but ONE that is true; and that one necessarily must, as it ever will, be in all things consistent with the ever existing word of God that we behold in his works. But such is the strange construction of the christian system of faith, that every evidence the heavens affords to man, either directly contradicts it or renders it absurd. It

The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.

I wasn't with Joseph, but I believe him. My faith did not come to me through science, and I will not permit so-called science to destroy it.

We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.

Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.

Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation. Meditation is a duty wherein consists the essentials of religion, and which nourishes the very life-blood of it.

To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others is the symptom of a disordered Christian.

The sum and definition of religion is, be rich in works of mercy, be helpful to the bodies and souls of others. Scatter your golden seeds; let the lamp of your profession be filled with the oil of charity. Be merciful in giving and forgiving. 'Be ye merciful, as your heavenly Father is merciful'.

As therefore we cherish our salvation and the honor of true religion, let us shine in that orb of relationships where God has placed us.

Until the heart is pure, all our holy things (that is, our religious duties) are polluted. They are but splendid sins!