Inspirational Quotes on Religion

“Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.”

“Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.”

“Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.”

“No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of his age is slowly divorcing itself from it.”

“A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a scientific faith.”

“No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in Religion.”

“If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.”

“The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.”

“The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not Religiousness, but Love.”

“Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it. Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural world.”

“Religion is not a strange or added thing; but the inspiration of the secular life, the breathing of an eternal spirit through this temporal world.”

“Try to give up the idea that religion comes to us by chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes to us by natural law, or by supernatural law, for all law is Divine.”

“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”

“There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.”

“The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.”

“To say that reunion with Rome would be an insult to our martyred Reformers is a very light thing; it is far more than this: it would be sin and an offense against God!”

“A religion which did not flatter the rich, the great, and the learned - a religion which offered no license to the carnal inclinations of man's heart - a religion whose first teachers were poor fishermen, without wealth, rank, or power - a religion could never have turned the world upside down, if it had not been of God.”

“I declare I know of no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.”

“Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Saviour.”

“A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.”