Inspirational Quotes on Religion

“Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.”

“Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.”

“I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.”

“I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It's almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.”

“No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'”

“If we retain only what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at the bar of enlightened common sense, then we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion.”

“For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.”

“The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.”

“Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand.”

“It is simple religions that are the made-up ones.”

“I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist; but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, "It is Jesus Christ."”

“The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.”

“At the highest levels of virtually every major religion, the conspiracy to hijack truth and enslave the masses is constantly at work, whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, or Protestantism.”

“A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living "without God in the world." Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation.”

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”

“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”

“Paul taught that religions evolved because man did not honor the true God. Because of rebellion, they "exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the form of the corruptible man and birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures." One characteristic of idolatry is that it always confuses the creature with the creator.”

“Don't ever think that there are many ways to the Divine. Jesus is the one qualified mediator, the only qualified sacrifice, and the only qualified savior.”

“I do not believe Muslims were evil because of their faith, but as a minister, I believe it is my responsibility to speak out against the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching.”

“I want them to know that they don't have to die in a car bomb, don't have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it's through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone.”