Religious Apathy Quotes

To be honest, I don't really care about any pope. It's not something I think about much, to be quite honest with you.

I wonder maybe if our Lord does not suffer more from our indifference, than He did from the crucifixion.

A churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on the rapid downgrade.

I read the Bible sometimes, but it bores me to death. I just want to know what other people find so bloody fascinating.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

When I sent out a casual and nonscientific poll of my own to a wide cast of acquaintances, friends and colleagues, I was surprised, but not really, to learn that maybe 60 percent claimed a belief in a God of some sort, including people I would have bet were unregenerate skeptics. Others just shrugged. They don't think about this stuff. It doesn't matter to them. They can't know, they won't beat themselves up trying to know and for that matter they don't care if their kids believe or not.

Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?

What breaks my heart is in the United States hundreds of thousands wake up on a Sunday and church never crosses their mind.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine.

She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.

It is my growing conviction that the Baptist churches in America are behind the age in missionary spirit. They now and then make a spasmodic effort to throw off a nightmare debt of some years' accumulation, and then sink back into unconscious repose.

They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.

The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.

God can get tiny if we're not careful.

Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

Spiritual infirmities such as tepidity are caused, not only by chills but also by fevers, that is, by excessive zeal.

No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer and fewer seasons even of thought, that grow hard with years, that are less and less troubled by sin, and that are more and more irreverent of religion. We pray for the children of Christian parents who sometimes weep at the memory of father and mother, but who never have thought of God.

The depreciation of Christianity by indifference is a more insidious and less curable evil than infidelity itself.

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.