Quotes about Religion

You don't make your words true by embellishing them with religious lace. In making your speech sound more religious, it becomes less true.

Whence it is evident that the perfect religion committed to us by the teaching of Christ is not new and strange, but, if the truth must be spoken, it is the first and the true religion. This may suffice for this subject.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Religion is like a map. The route isn't important. It's the destination that matters.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

At the age when other children, I imagine, experience their first 'feeling' for a person, or for art, or for religion, I was affectionate, good, and even pious: by that I mean that under the influence of my mother, I was devoted to the Child Jesus.

I have no message of hate. I do not attack any religion. I just preach Jesus.

I do not have, and never had, any interest in either the Bible or religion.

Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

Abraham is such a fascinating figure. Three world religions - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - all claim him as a patriarch. He was raised in a religious home. And yet he rejected religion in order to pursue a personal relationship with God.