Inspirational Quotes on Religion

“In the morning consider that you may not live till evening, and when evening comes do not dare to promise yourself the dawn.”

“In many (most?) churches there are programs and activities... but so little worship. There are songs and anthems and musicals... but so little worship. There are announcements and readings and prayers... but so little worship.”

“The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah...and died to give his work its final consecration never existed. ["Modern Christian Thought: The twentieth century, Volume 2" by James C. Livingston, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, p.13]”

“Yet Jesus Christ says he is standing knocking at the door of our lives, waiting. Notice that he is standing at the door, not pushing it; speaking to us, not shouting. This is all the more remarkable when we reflect that the house is his in any case. He is the architect; he designed it. He is the builder; he made it. He is the landlord; he bought it with his own blood. So it is his by right of plan, construction, and purchase. We are only tenants in a house that does not belong to us. He could put his shoulder to the door; he prefers to put his hand on the knocker. He could command us to open to him; instead, he merely invites us to do so. He will not force an entry to anybody's life. He says (verse 18) 'I counsel you.' He could issue orders; he is content to give advice. This is the nature of his humility and the extent of the freedom he has given us.”

“What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ's.”

“Most men, indeed, play at religion as they play at games, religion itself being of all games the one most universally played.”

“Religion today is not transforming the people - it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society - it is descending to society's own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smiling accepting its surrender.”

“Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.”

“I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they're counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they've never been born again.”

“One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.”

“Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission—its masterpiece is, to reunite them.”

“We are drifting toward a religion which consciously or unconsciously has its eye on humanity rather than on deity.”

“I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.”

“Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah's ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law.”

“Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11.”

“Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition.”

“Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.”

“Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.”

“I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.”