Quotes about Religion

In the Roman Empire a child's religion was determined not by some choice in the teenage years but by that child's family.

Babylon will never be the new Jerusalem; it cannot be Christianized.

Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Worry is really just a form of atheism. Every time you worry, you're acting like an atheist. You're saying, "It all depends on me." That's just not in the Bible.

Any time someone makes you feel guilty about how you are living, that is part of the old system (pre-Christ).

A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be "temperate and furious" at the same time.

It's time for the government to scale back, not for people of faith to scale back!

All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the elect have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so slow, so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle — keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

It is said, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent upon him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is. Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.