Francis Bacon Quotes

America is a Christian nation ... The less we emphasize the Christian religion, the further we fall into the abyss of poor character and chaos.

The Christian Religion as I understand it is the best.

Christ could not create a codified 'Christian ethics'; such a thing would be a contradiction in terms.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

The seven deadly sins: Want of money, bad health, bad temper, chastity, family ties, knowing that you know things, and believing in the Christian religion.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.

Strive to imbue that people with good morals, and bring it to pass, as well through yourself as through those whom you know from their faith, doctrine, and course of life to be fit for such a work, that the church may there be adorned, the Christian religion planted and made to grow, and the things which pertain to the honor of God and to salvation be so ordered that you may merit to obtain an abundant and lasting reward from God, and on earth a name glorious throughout the ages

[A] well-formed Christian conscience does not permit one to vote for a political program or an individual law which contradicts the fundamental contents of faith and morals.

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

I can't believe in Christianity, but I think Jesus was a wonderful teacher.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

Saying a prayer won't make you a Christian. Placing your faith in Christ as your savior makes you a Christian.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

My dear, be a good man be virtuous be religious be a good man. Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to lie here. ...God bless you all.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Golden Rule lies at the heart of every religious and of every ethical system of morality, it what makes us look at one another. The religions have all adopted it independently, Chinese, Indian, Muslim, Christian, Jewish, because they find it works and because it says something very deep about the structure of our humanity.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

The real truth, I thought, in terms of what faith is and what Christianity is.