Quotes about Religion
A particular ikon an aid to devotion may be itself a word of art, but that is logically accidental; its artistic merits will not make it a better ... ikon. They may make it a worse one.
- CS Lewis
As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!
- Abraham Kuyper
Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.
- Brother Andrew
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
- Alexander Hamilton
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
- Rachel Held Evans
I believe the spreading of Catholicism to be the most horrible means of political and social degradation left in the world.
- Charles Dickens
Religion is often politics made sacred.
- Gloria Steinem
Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.
- Hilaire Belloc
If you're not a born-again Christian, you're a failure as a human being.
- Jerry Falwell
All churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim, are simply human inventions. They use fear to enslave us. They are a monopoly for power and profit.
- Thomas Paine