Religion Quotes - Page 2

God is always bigger than the boxes we build for God, so we should not waste too much time protecting the boxes.

Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

Each person is sacred, no matter what his or her culture, religion, handicap, or fragility. Each person is created in God’s image; each one has a heart, a capacity to love and to be loved.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

He (Mohammed) seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh urges us. His teaching also contained precepts that were in conformity with his promises, and he gave free rein to carnal pleasure. In all this, as is not unexpected; he was obeyed by carnal men. As for proofs of the truth of his doctrine, he brought forward only such as could be grasped by the natural ability of anyone with a very modest wisdom. Indeed, the truths that he taught he mingled with many fables and with doctrines of the greatest falsity.

Christ is not valued at all, unless he is valued above all.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Many souls fail to find God because they want a religion which will remake society without remaking themselves.

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go

Let's quit fiddling with religion and do something to bring the world to Christ.

Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.

The Pentecostal power, when you sum it all up, is just more of God's love. If it does not bring more love, it is simply a counterfeit.

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

In my view, all that is necessary for faith is the belief that by doing our best we shall come nearer to success and that success in our aims (the improvement of the lot of mankind, present and future) is worth attaining...I maintain that faith in this world is perfectly possible without faith in another world.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

A religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, that is to say, things set apart and forbidden-beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them.