It is simple religions that are the made-up ones.
– C.S. Lewis
Religion
I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost; Christianity without Christ; forgiveness without repentance; salvation without regeneration; politics without God; and Heaven without Hell.
– William Booth
Religion | Christianity | Apathy
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
– George Washington
Morality | Religion
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
– Billy Graham
Religion | Politics | Freedom
Men are not made religious by performing certain actions which are externally good, but they must first have righteous principles, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
– Martin Luther
Religion | Virtue | Men
Religion today is not transforming the people – it is being transformed by the people. It is not raising the moral level of society – it is descending to society’s own level and congratulating itself that it has scored a victory because society is smiling accepting its surrender.
– A. W. Tozer
Religion
I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven. They give lip service to repentance and faith, but they’ve never been born again.
– Adrian Rogers
Hell | Religion | Self-righteousness
We need a baptism of clear seeing. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist–Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.
– A. W. Tozer
Evangelism | Religion | Vision
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
– Blaise Pascal
Religion | Hatred
I’m not doubting. I don’t doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It’s religion I’m doubting.
– Bono
Faith | Religion
I believe that the Roman church is a false church and it teaches a false gospel…and indeed, I believe that the pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office.
– Albert Mohler
Doctrine | Religion
I often wonder if religion is the enemy of God. It’s almost like religion is what happens when the Spirit has left the building.
– Bono
The Holy Spirit | Religion
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion | Beauty
There are basically only two kinds of religion in the world: those based on human achievement and those based on divine accomplishment. One says you can earn your way to heaven; the other says you must trust in Jesus Christ alone.
– John MacArthur
Religion
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
– G.K. Chesterton
Religion
Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.
– Matthew Henry
Religion | Hypocrisy | Boasting
Has your religion cost you anything? If it has cost you nothing, it is worth nothing.
– William Tiptaft
Religion
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
– G.K. Chesterton
Christianity | Religion | Hatred
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
– John Henry Newman
Religion
Science investigates – religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Religion | Wisdom | Knowledge
Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance–he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.
– Tim Keller
Christianity | Faith | Grace | Religion | Repentance
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
– John Wesley
Religion
Naturally, men are prone to spin themselves a web of opinions out of their own brain, and to have a religion that may be called their own. They are far readier to make themselves a faith, than to receive that which God hath formed to their hands; are far readier to receive a doctrine that tends to their carnal commodity, or honor, or delight, than one that tends to self-denial.
– Richard Baxter
Self-denial | Religion | Carnality
At the highest levels of virtually every major religion, the conspiracy to hijack truth and enslave the masses is constantly at work, whether it is Catholicism, Judaism, or Protestantism.
– Chuck Baldwin
Religion
Why don’t the names of Buddha, Mohammed, Confucius offend people? The reason is that these others didn’t claim to be God, but Jesus did.
– Josh McDowell
Religion | God
Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11.
– Ann Coulter
Religion | Politics
If men’s religion prevails not to conquer and cure the wickedness of their hearts, it shall not always serve for a cloak. The day is coming when hypocrites will be stripped of their fig-leaves.
– Matthew Henry
Religion | Hypocrisy
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
– Isaac Watts
Religion | Passion
If a man’s religion does not get into every detail of his life he may profess to be a saint, but he’s a fraud. Religion ought to permeate life and make it beautiful–as lovely as a breath of perfume from the garden of the Lord.
– Gipsy Smith
Religion
How could you possibly know that no religion can see the whole truth unless you yourself have the superior, comprehensive knowledge of spiritual reality you just claimed none of the religions have?
– Tim Keller
Religion
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.
– Ann Coulter
Evolution | Religion
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
– Blaise Pascal
Religion | Good and Evil | Cheerfulness
The Gospel is neither religion nor irreligion – it is something else altogether. Religion makes law and moral obedience a means of salvation, while irreligion makes the individual a law to him – or herself. The Gospel, however, is that Jesus takes the law of God so seriously that He paid the penalty of disobedience, so we can be saved by sheer grace.
– Tim Keller
God | The Gospel | Religion
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
– Jerry Falwell
Religion | Politics
Most men, indeed, play at religion as they play at games, religion itself being of all games the one most universally played.
– A. W. Tozer
Religion
Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Savior.
– James H. Aughey
The Gospel | Christ | Religion
What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ’s.
– A.J. Gossip
Religion
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
– Charles Stanley
Religion | Deception
A man with no sense of religious duty is he whom the Scriptures describe in such terse but terrific language, as living “without God in the world.” Such a man is out of his proper being, out of the circle of all his duties, out of the circle of all his happiness, and away, far, far away, from the purposes of his creation.
– Daniel Webster
Religion
If we retain only what can be justified by standards of prudence and convenience at the bar of enlightened common sense, then we exchange revelation for that old wraith Natural Religion.
– C.S. Lewis
Religion
The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
– Henry Drummond
Religion | Jesus
Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.
– G.K. Chesterton
Religion
Religion needs a baptism of horse sense.
– Billy Sunday
Religion
Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
– G.K. Chesterton
Religion | Doubt
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
– Jeremy Taylor
Religion
If the purification of Religion comes from Science, the purification of Science, in a deeper sense, shall come from Religion.
– Henry Drummond
Religion
Religion will cost us the tears of repentance and the blood of persecution.
– Thomas Watson
Religion | Persecution
The joy of religion is an exorcist to the mind; it expels the demons of carnal mirth and madness.
– Richard Cecil
Religion | Carnality
I love the people of Islam but their religion, I do not agree with their religion at all. And if you look at what the religion does just to women, women alone, it is just horrid. And so yes, I speak out for women. I speak out for people that live under Islam, that are enslaved by Islam and I want them to know that they can be free.
– Franklin Graham
Religion | Freedom
What exactly has Christ done for you? What is there in your life that needs Christ to explain it, and that, apart from Him, simply could not have been there at all? If there is nothing, then your religion is a sheer futility. But then that is your fault, not Jesus Christ’s.
– A. J. Gossip
Religion
A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery; but depth in that study brings him about again to our religion.
– Thomas Fuller
Religion
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
– Adoniram Judson
Apathy | Religion
A Science without mystery is unknown; a Religion without mystery is absurd. However far the scientific method may penetrate the Spiritual World, there will always remain a region to be explored by a scientific faith.
– Henry Drummond
Religion
…but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.
– G.K. Chesterton
Religion
In religion our only hope is to live a life good enough to require God to bless us, so every instance of sin and repentance is therefore traumatic, unnatural and threatening. Only under great duress do religious people admit they have sinned, because their only hope is their moral goodness. In the Gospel the knowledge of our acceptance in Christ makes it easier to admit that we are flawed, because we know we won’t be cast off if we confess the true depths of our sinfulness. Our hope is in Christ’s righteousness, not our own, so it is not as traumatic to admit our weaknesses and lapses.
– Tim Keller
Christ | God | The Gospel | Religion | Repentance
For whatever else the religious life may be, it is the fountain of self-knowledge and disillusion, the safest form of psychoanalysis.
– C.S. Lewis
Religion
Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth. Rational judgment, intelligent understanding, mental acceptance, or the pursuit of the good, the beautiful, and the true are merely soulical activities if the spirit is not reached and stirred.
– Watchman Nee
Religion | Faithful | Confession
Religion in having mystery is in analogy with all around it. Where there is exceptional mystery in the Spiritual World it will generally be found that there is a corresponding mystery in the natural world.
– Henry Drummond
Religion
Recollection is the life of religion. The Christian wants to know no new thing, but to have his heart elevated more above the world by secluding himself from it as much as his duties will allow, that religion may affect its great end by bringing its sublime hopes and prospects into more steady action on the mind.
– Richard Cecil
Religion
The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bath when used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into which one goes with reluctance, and is glad when able to get out.–But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element; he lives in it, and could not live out of it.
– John Newton
Religion
To say that reunion with Rome would be an insult to our martyred Reformers is a very light thing; it is far more than this: it would be sin and an offense against God!
– J. C. Ryle
Heresy | Religion
I would give nothing for that man’s religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
– Assorted Authors
Religion | Animals
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
– Edmund Burke
Religion
Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.
– John Newton
Religion
From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.
– John Henry Newman
Religion | Age
I am never ashamed to avow myself a Calvinist; I do not hesitate to take the name of Baptist; but if I am asked what is my creed, I reply, “It is Jesus Christ.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Religion
It is a sad and shocking fact that many religious people are in Hell.
– John R. Rice
Religion | Hell
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit.
– Max Lucado
Religion
We are not quarrelling over religions at the front–we are fighting and dying for the folks who are doing that at home.
– Gipsy Smith
Religion
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.
– Hosea Ballou
Religion
Public school teachers are the new priesthood while traditional religion is ridiculed and maligned.
– Ann Coulter
Teachers | Religion
Liberals hate religion because politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can’t stand the competition.
– Ann Coulter
Religion | Politics
I do not believe Muslims were evil because of their faith, but as a minister, I believe it is my responsibility to speak out against the terrible deeds that are committed as a result of Islamic teaching.
– Franklin Graham
Religion
I’m no specialist in Islamic theology. I’ll let those who are debate whether or not there is that kind of militancy and warrior culture within Islamic theology. But I want to say as a Christian theologian, the biggest problem with Islamic theology is that it kills the soul.
– Albert Mohler
Religion
The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?
– Ravi Zacharias
Atheism | Religion
The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends.
– C.S. Lewis
Religion
Religion is not a burden, not a weight, it is wings.
– Harry Emerson Fosdick
Religion
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion: The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one.
– George Washington
Religion | Reasoning
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.
– C.S. Lewis
Religion
Liberal doctrines are less scientifically provable than the story of Noah’s ark, but their belief system is taught as fact in government schools, while Biblical belief system is banned from government schools by law.
– Ann Coulter
Religion
I declare I know of no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
– J. C. Ryle
Religion
Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.
– Adoniram Judson
Apathy | Religion
Nothing exposes religion more to the reproach of its enemies than the worldliness and hard-heartedness of its professors.
– Matthew Henry
Worldliness | Enemies | Religion
If religion might be judged of according to men’s intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
– Joseph Hall
Religion | Idolatry
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
– Edmund Burke
Religion
Zeal is very blind, or badly regulated, when it encroaches upon the rights of others.
– Assorted Authors
Religion | Zeal
Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
– Hannah More
ReligionLight
When we compare biblical Christianity with the religions of the world, using the Scriptures to guide us, we see that the gap between them is unbridgeable. In fact, one is forced to the conclusion that there are really only two religions in the world: biblical Christianity–and all other religions.
– T.A. McMahon
Religion | Christianity
A man’s religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
– Thomas Carlyle
Religion | Believing | Doubt
The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.
– Richard Cecil
Religion
No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as ‘what a man does with his solitude.’
– C.S. Lewis
Religion | History
I don’t believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.
– Catherine Booth
Religion | Service
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
– G.K. Chesterton
Religion
No one who knows the content of Christianity, or feels the universal need of a Religion, can stand idly by while the intellect of his age is slowly divorcing itself from it.
– Henry Drummond
Religion
The test of Religion, the final test of Religion, is not Religiousness, but Love.
– Henry Drummond
Religion | Love
God is not a God of the gaps: This view of the deity is a parody on religion that has never been embraced by thinking man.
– Dr. Edgar Andrews
Creation | Religion
A religion which did not flatter the rich, the great, and the learned – a religion which offered no license to the carnal inclinations of man’s heart – a religion whose first teachers were poor fishermen, without wealth, rank, or power – a religion could never have turned the world upside down, if it had not been of God.
– J. C. Ryle
Religion
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
– Hosea Ballou
Religion
I want them to know that they don’t have to die in a car bomb, don’t have to die in some kind of holy war to be accepted by God. But it’s through faith in Jesus Christ and Christ alone.
– Franklin Graham
Religion | Faith | Jesus
Disagreement is refreshing when two men lovingly desire to compare their views to find out truth. Controversy is wretched when it is only an attempt to prove another wrong. Religious controversy does only harm. It destroys humble inquiry after truth, and throws all the energies into an attempt to prove ourselves right – a spirit in which no man gets at truth.
– Frederick W. Robertson
Truth | Religion