Quotes about Religion

If we have not enough in our religion to share it with all the world, it is doomed here at home.

The spirit of Missions is the spirit of our Master: the very genius of His religion. A diffusive philanthropy is Christianity itself. It requires perpetual propagation to attest its genuineness.

I have avoided giving offence to intelligent Arabs, who have pressed me, asking if I believed in Mohamad by saying, "No I do not: I am a child of Jesus bin Miriam," avoiding anything offensive in my tone, and often adding that Mohamad found their forefathers bowing down to trees and stones, and did good to them by forbidding idolatry, and teaching the worship of the only One God. This, they all know, and it pleases them to have it recognised.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.

Once people stop believing in God, the problem is not that they will believe in nothing; rather, the problem is that they will believe anything.

God put enough into the world to make faith in Him a reasonable thing. But He left enough out to make it impossible to live by reason alone.

Thank God, under our Constitution there was no connection between church and state.

For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?

Do I believe in evolution? I embrace the view that God created the heavens and the earth, the seas and all that's in them.

Most people do not let the Word of God get in the way of what they believe.