Quotes about Religion
Our belief of the Scriptures to be the word of God, or a divine revelation, and our understanding of the mind and will of God as revealed in them, are the two springs of all our interest in Christian religion. From them are all those streams of light and truth derived whereby our souls are watered, refreshed, and made fruitful unto God.
- John Owen
With his white collar he forges god's name on every word he speaks
- John Updike
Death is easily fooled. If the churches don't work, a filter will do.
- John Updike
It is most difficult in my mind, to seperate success, whether it be in your profession, your family, or as in my case, in basketball, from religion.
- John Wooden
What's up is faith what's down is heresy.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
The great act of faith is when a man decides that he is not God.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Every Christian family ought to be as it were a little church.
- Jonathan Edwards
More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."
- Martin Niemoller
There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.
- Thomas Jefferson
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
- Charles Spurgeon
Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.
- Thomas Jefferson
Baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. The Father, Son, and Holy Ghost: there are three distinct persons: in the Name, not names; there is one essence.
- Thomas Adams