Quotes about Religion

America was never officially a Christian nation, since neither Jesus Christ nor the Bible are mentioned in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. But there's no denying the influence Christianity has had on our country.

We can never get around to being one nation under God if we can't even get around to being one Church under God.

First and foremost is what this country was based on: one nation under God.

The only difference between your local college and a Christian seminary is that the latter is more honest.

American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Not Forgive us for our sins but Smite us for our iniquities should be the prayer of man to a most just God.

I often wonder what would have happened to those in pain if, instead of Christ, there had been a Christian.

I do not think that people have religion because they relax their usually strict criteria for evidence and accept extraordinary claims; I think they are led to relax these criteria because some extraordinary claims have become quite plausible to them.

But I am tremendously interested in what religion does for me, just as I am interested in what electricity and good food and water do for me.

The adult members of churches today rarely raise serious religious questions for fear of revealing their doubts or being thought of as strange. There is an implicit conspiracy of silence on religious matters in the churches. This conspiracy covers up the fact that the churches do not change lives or influence conduct to any appreciable degree.

Legalists and theological experts with "lips close to God and hearts far away from him" (Isa. 29:13). The world hardly needs more of these.

The revelation of God in Jesus Christ (which is the object of Christian faith) is something very different from religion. "Religion has many critics, but Jesus very few. He is a self-authenticating reality beyond the myriad social cocoons. He belongs to humanity. He called himself "Son of Man".