Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
—Albert Einstein
The sincerity of our profession much depends upon the care we exercise in keeping our hearts. Most certainly, that man who is careless of the frame of his heart, is but a hypocrite in his profession, however eminent he be in the externals of religion.
—John Flavel
Keeping the heart is the most important business of a Christian’s life. Without this we are but formalists in religion: all our professions, gifts and duties signify nothing.
—John Flavel
The Christian faith differs from all other religions in that its doctrines are based on facts.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Pure and undefiled religion consists in a lively faith in JESUS CHRIST, as the only mediator between GOD and man.
—George Whitefield
True religion needs no churches. Church religion is slavery.
—Leo Tolstoy
It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible. Do not ever let anyone claim to be a true American patriot if they ever attempt to separate religion from politics.
—George Washington
Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion.
—Sigmund Freud
By fixing its followers a strong psychic infantilism and making them share a collective delusion, religion succeeds in sparing quantity of human beings an individual neurosis.
—Sigmund Freud
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion in the world.
—John Owen
The best way to make a progress in religion, is to persist in, and to improve on the means we enjoy.
—George Whitefield
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
—John Locke
So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.
—John Locke
Nay, if we may openly speak the truth, and as becomes one man to another, neither Pagan nor Mahometan, nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the commonwealth because of his religion.
—John Locke
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Articles or rules for doctrine or practice in matters of religion to be imposed upon men, should be as few as may be; there is very great danger in the unnecessary multiplying them. This in all ages has caused division and exceeding disturbances in the churches of Christ.
—Jeremiah Burroughs
Purity of religion in the church cannot stand long with slavery admitted in the state.
—Jeremiah Burroughs