Quotes about Religion

I was glad enough that I had not become a preacher, and so would not have to go through a war pretending that Jesus had not told us to love our enemies.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.

Tell um de good Lawd dont keer whether he bright er not. Dont nobody but white trash keer dat.

Victory without God is mockery and delusion, but...defeat with God is not defeat.

The] Christ story is one of the best stories that man has invented. . . . Faulkner in the University, 117

I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is. I have done things but neither better nor worse than them that pretend otherlike, and I know that Old Marster will care for me as for ere a sparrow that falls.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

The crucifixion should never be depicted. It is a horror to be veiled.

It does not follow, because our ancestors made so many errors of fact and mixed them with their religion, that we should therefore leave off being religious at all. By being religious we establish ourselves in possession of ultimate reality at the only points at which reality is given us to guard. Our responsible concern is with our private destiny, after all.

Were one asked to characterize the life of religion in the broadest and most general terms possible, one might say that it consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.

The theorizing mind tends always to the over-simplification of its materials. This is the root of all that absolutism and one-sided dogmatism by which both philosophy and religion have been infested.