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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something God recognizes I will do - and I have done it - and God forgives me for it.
— Jimmy Carter
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
— Edmund Burke
Paganism is that view of life which finds the highest goal of human existence in the healthy and harmonious and joyous development of existing human faculties. Very different is the Christian ideal. Paganism is optimistic with regard to unaided human nature, whereas Christianity is the religion of the broken heart.
— J. Gresham Machen
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour... A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
— J. Gresham Machen
The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
— Paul Tillich
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
— Frank Herbert
War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
— Martin Luther
Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
— Billy Graham
If God gave light and wisdom, the religion of Jesus was soon learned; but without God, a man might study all his life long, and make no proficiency.
— Adoniram Judson
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
— St. Augustine