Quotes about Influence
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
— Thomas Jefferson
Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.
— Julian Casablancas
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Finney preached and sometimes the whole congregation would get up and leave! that's good preaching.
— Leonard Ravenhill
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
— John Adams
The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If it weren't for Christians, I'd be a Christian.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.
— Soren Kierkegaard
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
By religion I mean perfected manhood,--the quickening of the soul by the influence of the Divine Spirit.
— Henry Ward Beecher
We believe in separation of church and state, that there should be no unwarranted influence on the church or religion by the state, and vice versa.
— Jimmy Carter
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.
— Mark Twain