Inspirational Quotes on Religion

“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.”

“The joy of religion is an exorcist to the mind; it expels the demons of carnal mirth and madness.”

“The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.”

“Recollection is the life of religion. The Christian wants to know no new thing, but to have his heart elevated more above the world by secluding himself from it as much as his duties will allow, that religion may effect its great end by bringing its sublime hopes and prospects into more steady action on the mind.”

“When we compare biblical Christianity with the religions of the world, using the Scriptures to guide us, we see that the gap between them is unbridgeable. In fact, one is forced to the conclusion that there are really only two religions in the world: biblical Christianity--and all other religions.”

“A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.”

“A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.”

“Religion is not a matter of chance, but of choice.”