Inspirational Quotes on 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.”

“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.”