Quotes about Religion

"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."

"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."

"Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy."

"We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

"Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither."

"The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion."

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is."

"When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that's my religion."

"See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life."

"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"

"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

"Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."

"The Son of God became man so that we might become God."

"Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians - you are not like him."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"I'm a Muslim, but I think Jesus would have a drink with me. He would be cool. He would talk to me."

"Toleration is the best religion."

"Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face."

"I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions."

"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."

"When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."

"God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."

"I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches."

"There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things."

"A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."

"I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love."

"So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you."