Explore Quotes on Religion

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

Religions that teach brotherly love have been used as an excuse for persecution, and our profoundest scientific insight is made into a means of mass destruction.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

I have a strong belief in God... I find religion to be a very personal thing... I am also very spiritual.

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

An atheist is but a mad, ridiculous derider of piety, but a hypocrite makes a sober jest of God and religion; he finds it easier to be upon his knees than to rise to a good action.

Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

Twas an unhappy Division that has been made between Faith and Works; though in my Intellect I may divide them, just as in the Candle I know there is both Light and Heat. But yet, put out the Candle, and they are both gone.

What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.

I would rather die now than to live a life of oblivious ease in so sick a world.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

We need to look resolutely away from the impossibilities and to the Lord. His help will come.

If you don't surrender to Christ, you surrender to chaos.

Americans suffer from mono-lingual myopia - a disease of the tongue that affects the vision.

Prayer is the core of the day. Take prayer out, and the day would collapse.