But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.
—Immanuel Kant
But they put it on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house: in like manner, it is the design of God that every Christian should be in an open point of view; that he may give light to all around, that he may visibly express the religion of Jesus Christ.
—John Wesley
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour… A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
A new and more powerful proclamation of the law is perhaps the most pressing need of the hour… A low view of law always brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
A little religion is, it must be confessed, apt to make men gloomy, as a little knowledge to render them vain
—William Wilberforce
Salvation doesn’t come from rituals, mysteries, or the revelations of this or that religion, but from a clear awareness of the meaning of your life.
—Leo Tolstoy
My religion is to love all living things. Ibrahim ibn Ya’qub al-Tartushi
—Leo Tolstoy
The confession of the Trinity is the core and the main element of the entire Christian religion. Without it, neither creation, nor redemption, nor sanctification can be purely maintained.
—Herman Bavinck
But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.
—Immanuel Kant
In every religion there is both truth and falsehood. Try to find the truth in the religion you were born into.
—Leo Tolstoy
If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other’s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace.
—Voltaire
When they lose their sense of awe, people turn to religion.
—Laozi
When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
—Voltaire
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
The spirit of a nation is reflected in its history, its religion, and the degree of its political freedom.
—Georg Hegel
A low view of law brings legalism into religion; a high view of law makes man a seeker after grace. Pray that the high view may prevail.
—J. Gresham Machen
“If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you as surely as you are now alive.”
The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.
—Immanuel Kant
I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple
—Jean-Paul Sartre
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
—Thomas Jefferson
Friends who have no religion cannot be long our friends.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
—Aldous Huxley
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
—Seneca
And if your love of God is in any wise decayed, so is also your love of your neighbour. You are then hurt in the very life and spirit of your religion! If you lose love, you lose all.
—John Wesley
Allowing then that a life of religion were a life of misery; that a life of wickedness were a life of happiness; and, that a man were assured of enjoying that happiness for the term of threescore years…
—John Wesley
But they put it on a candlestick, and it giveth light to all that are in the house: in like manner, it is the design of God that every Christian should be in an open point of view; that he may give light to all around, that he may visibly express the religion of Jesus Christ.
—John Wesley
Religion is an higher and deeper thing than any outward ordinance whatever.
—John Wesley
Among those who believe themselves to be orthodox Christians, [is] a deplorable ignorance of the religion they profess, an utter forgetfulness of the peculiar doctrines by which it is characterised
—William Wilberforce
For when the sense of religion diminishes, the notion of good and evil is erased, the sense of responsibility and guilt is suppressed, so that passion and lust have free rein and the wickedness of the heart breaks forth openly in the form of shameless evil acts.
—Herman Bavinck