Quotes about Religion

Sin is to faith what infidelity is to marriage.

When I ask my "Catholic" students what they would say to God if they died tonight and God asked them why He should let them into Heaven, fewer than 5% ever even mention Jesus Christ.

Disbelief is a sin, but honest unbelief is not.

Sociologists and anthropologists tell us that religion has three dimensions: creed, code, and cult; or words, works, and worship; or theology, morality, and liturgy.

The major heresies of our day are not about God but about man.

Judaism, the one and only directly and divinely revealed religion in the world

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Christians are good citizens, and take human laws very seriously, for religious reasons, not just for secular reasons. That's why they are better citizens than atheists, and certainly better citizens than moral relativists and subjectivists: they have stronger motives for obedience.

Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence;

Between 50 and 75% of entering freshmen at large Catholic universities typically identify themselves as believing and practicing Catholics. Only 25-50% of graduating seniors do the same.

Science asks what and how, philosophy asks why, myth and religion ask who. Who's

why contraception is not only wrong but sacrilegious: