Quotes about Religion

Our faith in doctrine is not established until we have a perfect conviction that God is its author.

The Institutes is not only the classic of Christian theology; it is also a model of Christian devotion.

Just as the light of the sun, while it invigorates a living and animated body, produces effluvia in a carcass; so it is certain that the sacraments where the Spirit of faith is not present, breathes mortiferous rather than vital odour.

Holding firmly to the principle that true religion is founded upon obedience.

Where the teaching is corrupt or is despised, there is no religion approved by God.

I do not say with Cicero, that errors wear out by age, and that religion increases and grows better day by day. For the world (as will be shortly seen) labours as much as it can to shake off all knowledge of God.

For I fear not to declare, that what I have here given may be regarded as a summary of the very doctrine which, they vociferate, ought to be punished with confiscation, exile, imprisonment, and flames, as well as exterminated by land and sea.

Therefore, it is blasphemous to give the title Son to anyone but Christ.

But if it is perfectly clear, from what was lately said, that the blood of Christ is the only satisfaction, expiation, and cleansing for the sins of believers, what remains but to hold that purgatory is mere blasphemy, horrid blasphemy against Christ? I say nothing of the sacrilege by which it is daily defended, the offenses which it begets in religion, and the other innumerable evils which we see teeming forth from that fountain of impiety.

Let us remember that while life is promised in Christ to all who believe, only a small part of the people are believers.

When the law is separated from Christ, nothing is left but empty forms.

For every family of the pious ought to be a church.