Religion Quotes

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

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

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

"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."

"We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life."

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

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

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

"To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."

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

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs."

"Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life."

"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."

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

"You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."

"One act of obedience is better than one hundred sermons."

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

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

"I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity."

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

"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."

"All religions must be tolerated... for every man must get to heaven in his own way."

"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit."

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

"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."

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

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow."

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

"God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that."