Quotes about Religion

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!

He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.

Another sign of our effectual calling is diligence in our ordinary calling. Some boast of their high calling, but they lie idly at anchor. Religion does not seal warrants to idleness. Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade.

Question: But why do people content themselves with a show of godliness? Answer: This helps to keep up their fame. Men are ambitious of credit, and wish to gain repute in the world, therefore they will dress themselves in the garb and mode of religion, so that others may write them down for saints. But alas, what is one the better for having others commend him—and his conscience condemn him? What good will it do a man when he is in hell—that others think he has gone to heaven?

Piety does not exclude industry.

None ever complained of serving God: it was their comfort and their crown on their death-bed.