Gouverneur Morris Quotes

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

To be frank, I suspect that today there is little respect for Christianity as source of moral teaching about goodness.

I'm living my life for an audience of one. I live my life to please God. And I believe if He's pleased, that people like my mother and my daddy, my grandparents, you know, my husband, my children, they'll be pleased.

I think in church you're raised like God is God and you are here.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Religion has a good place and it has its good people.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.

I believe that God wants us to show respect.

Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.

And as long as man has walked on this Earth, there has been God. And man's purpose is for the glorification of God.

You have to have courage to be obedient to God.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

Be ...a preacher of piety, not an exactor of tithes...

The child … must not learn religion before he knows morality

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all.

The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

I definitely had a very religious upbringing. My father was just instilling good morals into us at a very young age, and it wasn't super-strict, but it was a loving, warm household.

I believe religion is important for every person.

If you want to move people, you look for a point of sensitivity, and in Egypt nothing moves people as much as religion.

I was brought up in a Christian home in Australia with a father who was very bold about his faith.