Quotes about Religion

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

It has been religious people, often within the organized church, who have been the most critical of and even hostile to my relationship with God.

Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.

Protestantism came to America to make America Protestant. It was assumed that was to be done through faith in the reasonableness of the common man and the establishment of a democratic republic.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man - and the dogma is the drama.

The First Amendment does not require students to leave their religion at the schoolhouse door. … If students can wear T-shirts advertising sports teams, rock groups or politicians, they can also wear T-shirts that promote religion. … Religion is too important to our history and our heritage for us to keep it out of our schools.

Oftentimes religious circles are known for extreme control of the people, situations and environment around them. Control then becomes the issue of the hour. Studying the Scriptures without letting the Holy Spirit teach us puts us in control. He always takes us to Jesus. Going to the One the Scriptures point to puts Him in control. In other words, when the Bible is an end unto itself, it gives us a measure of learning, but no personal transformation.

Religion idolizes concepts and avoids personal experience.