Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him.
I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so.
As there are a very great variety of religious sects in the world, it is particularly recommended, as a means of uniting the inhabitants of the village into one family, that while each faithfully adheres to the principles which he most approves, at the same time all shall think charitably of their neighbors respecting their religious opinions, and not presumptuously suppose that theirs alone are right.
New Lanark was a Utopian commune organized by Owen.
How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!
Catholics and Protestants remained faithful to their religions, but stopped thinking of them in zero-sum terms and gradually embraced the separation between church and state.
Only those who obey can believe, and only those who believe can obey.
It is in the nature of man to like what he is familiar with and in what he has been brought up, and that he fears anything alien. The plurality of religions and their mutual intolerance result from the fact that people remain faithful to the education they receive.
Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.
Let the ground of all thy religious actions be obedience; examine not why it is commanded, but observe it because it is commanded. True obedience neither procrastinates nor questions.
You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!
The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.
I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.
We obey God's Law, not to be loved but because we are loved in Christ.
Once we know the Word of God, we have a responsibility to be obedient to it.
Part of someone's being a good Muslim is his leaving alone that which does not concern him.
The open secret of many Bible believing Churches is that a vanishingly small percentage of those talking about prayer and Bible reading are actually doing what they are talking about.
Lawful worship consists in obedience alone.
The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings of tolerance, love, and compassion are the same.
If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray.
It is not the business of the church to adapt Christ to men, but men to Christ.
Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.
Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet-anchor of your liberties; write its precepts in your hearts, and practice them in your lives.
You can no more trust Jesus and not intend to obey him than you could trust your doctor and your auto mechanic and not intend to follow their advice. If you don't intend to follow their advice, you simply don't trust them. Period.
Some people's lives would drastically change if they would obey God as strictly as they obey their doctors.