Inspirational Quotes on Religion

“The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.”

“From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.”

“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”

“There are basically only two kinds of religion in the world: those based on human achievement and those based on divine accomplishment. One says you can earn your way to heaven; the other says you must trust in Jesus Christ alone.”

“Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.”

“The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bath when used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into which one goes with reluctance, and is glad when able to get out.--But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element; he lives in it, and could not live out of it.”

“It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.”

“The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.”

“If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.”

“Why don't the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn't claim to be God, but Jesus did.”

“Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.”

“Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.”

“Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.”

“If men's religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.”

“Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.”

“Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and hard-heartedness of its professors.”

“Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit.”

“The religion that makes a man look sick certainly won't cure the world!”

“The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?”

“Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.”