Religion Quotes
Students today want to know about the devil, about witchcraft, about the occult. Many people do not know they are turning to Satan. They are being deluded.
Religion can be anything! But true Christianity is God coming to man in a personal relationship.
Man suppresses the truth, mixes it with error, and develops the religions of the world.
Only God knows the future and that we are to look to Him—not to the stars or the tea leaves or the lines on the palms of our hands—for our confidence in the future.
Some Christian leaders . . . are willing to give up some of the teachings of the Bible in order to harmonize Christianity with the other religions.
In order to compete with God for the dominion of the world, Satan, whom Christ called “the prince of this world, ” was forced to go into the “religion” business.
I accepted what the Sisters taught in religion class: that God is loving, merciful, charitable, forgiving. That message didn't jibe with adults smacking kids.
The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reasoning.
One cannot worship the false god of nationalism and the God of Christianity at the same time. .
The most common sort of lie is that by which a man deceives himself: the deception of others is a relatively rare offense.
So I do not pray. I accept the means at my disposal for working out my destiny. It seems to me that I have been given a mind and will power for that very purpose.
He freed man from outer religiosity because he made religiosity the inner man. He freed the body from chains because he enchained the heart.
If I were to construct a God I would furnish Him with some way and qualities and characteristics which the Present lacks.
The pride of aiming at more knowledge, and pretending to more perfection, is the cause of Man's error and misery.
The day I met Islam, I found a power within myself that no man could destroy or take away from me.
Everywhere where detestable Islam has not yet driven out the ancient, profound religions of humanity with fire and sword, my ascetic results would have to fear the reproach of being trivial
What a prodigious conscience must that be that can be at quiet within itself whilst it harbors under thesame roof, with so agreeing and so calm a society, both the crime and the judge?
Unlike most other world religions, Buddhism has never been too rigid in its structure.
The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.
History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion — ie., none to speak of
Just as man is governed, in religion, by the products of his own brain, so, in capitalist production, he is governed by the products of his own hand.
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God grante
Man is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight
and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives.
In comparison with the spirit of priestly revenge all the remaining spirits are hardly worth considering.
Only a "dry as dust" religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.
In the beginning God created man in His own image, and man has been trying to repay the favor ever since.
Then the hard, dry Spaniards came exploring through, greedy and realistic, and their greed was for gold or God. They collected souls as they collected jewels.
In religion as in parenthood, uncritical loyalty to our ancestors may implicate us in an injustice against our descendants: imprisoning them in the errors of our ancestors.
I believe that, in this country, the press exerts a greater and a more pernicious influence than the church did in its worst period. We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians.
O! I shall soon despair, when I shall seeThat Thou lovest mankind well, yet wilt not choose me, And Satan hates me, yet is loth to lose me.
There's one thing worse than a failed old religion: a naïve and arrogant new one.
One should not think of embracing another religion before one had fully understand his own.
what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance.
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people.
As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...
Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe. It is not enough that a thing be possible for it to be believed.
As for future life every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.
Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world but you must get at a man through his own religion not through yours.
