109
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
108
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
107
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
106
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
105
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
104
The framers of our Constitution meant we were to have freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
- Billy Graham
103
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
102
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
101
Nothing in human life, least of all in religion, is ever right until it is beautiful.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
100
Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.
- Blaise Pascal
99
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
98
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
97
I'm not doubting. I don't doubt God. I have firm faith absolutely in God. It's religion I'm doubting.
- Bono
96
Science investigates - religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power. Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
95
Those that boast most of the religion may be suspected of partiality and hypocrisy in it.
- Matthew Henry
94
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
- G.K. Chesterton
92
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
90
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
89
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
88
Has your religion cost you anything? If it has cost you nothing, it is worth nothing.
- William Tiptaft
87
We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.
- John Henry Newman
86
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
85
The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest.
- Isaac Watts
84
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
82
Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11.
- Ann Coulter
81
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
80
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
79
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
78
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
77
I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Assorted Authors
76
Give a man religion without reminding him of his filth, and the result will be arrogance in a three-piece suit.
- Max Lucado
75
I would like evolution to join the roster of other discredited religions.
- Ann Coulter
74
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
73
If religion might be judged of according to men's intentions, there would scarcely be any idolatry in the world.
- Joseph Hall
72
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
71
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
- Blaise Pascal
70
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
69
The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
- Jerry Falwell
68
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
67
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
66
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
65
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
64
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
63
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
62
The religion of Jesus has probably always suffered more from those who have misunderstood than from those who have opposed it.
- Henry Drummond
61
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