Quotes on Religion

‘Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.

The true man of God is heartsick, grieved at the worldliness of the Church, grieved at the toleration of sin in the Church, grieved at the prayerlessness in the Church. He is disturbed that the corporate prayer of the Church no longer pulls down the strongholds of the devil.

He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.

There is a strain of loneliness infecting many Christians, which only the presence of God can cure.

The price of freedom of religion or of speech or of the press is that we must put up with, and even pay for, a good deal of rubbish.

The motto of all true servants of God must be, ‘We preach Christ; and him crucified.’ A sermon without Christ in it is like a loaf of bread without any flour in it. No Christ in your sermon, sir? Then go home, and never preach again until you have something worth preaching.

Leave Christ out? O my brethren, better leave the pulpit out altogether. If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ’s name in it, it ought to be his last, certainly the last that any Christian ought to go to hear him preach.

To fear to face an issue is to believe that the worst is true.

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation.

It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as well not pray. Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.

Scepticism is the first step towards truth.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

Every sort of energy and endurance, of courage and capacity for handling life's evils, is set free in those who have religious faith.

The church doesn’t have a social strategy, the church is a social strategy.

You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.