Religion Quotes

"It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the creator of the universe can hear your thoughts, while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having a dinner conversation with you." "The truth is, religion as we speak of it is made coherent only by the dumb ceaseless charade of contending faiths." "The problem with religion, well among other problems, is that it's the only way where you can get people – good people – to do immoral things." "Let the Lord judge the criminals." "Religion is a defense against the experience of God" "There are no atheists in the foxholes" "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion" "God never measures the mind. He always put His tape measure in the heart" "Holiness is a thing of growth, the more the tree of God is " "Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace." "The rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth." "At the dawn of the Third Millennium, Christians must be people who rejoice in life, who are witnesses to life." "The entrance into heaven is not at the end of this life" "A true, saving faith is measured not by the measure of confidence, but by this, that it be a purifying, working, and causing faith" "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom" "Religion consists very much in holy affection" "True virtue must chiefly consist in love to God" "God is the highest good of the reasonable creature" "When God created the world, he had respect to himself" "To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better"