Religion Quotes by John Quincy Adams

It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year

— John Quincy Adams

The first and almost the only Book deserving of universal attention is the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

— John Quincy Adams

The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of…

— John Quincy Adams

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

— John Quincy Adams

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of…

— John Quincy Adams

To a man of liberal education, the study of history is not only useful, and important, but altogether indispensable, and with regard…

— John Quincy Adams

To read the Bible is of itself a laudable occupation and can scarcely fail of being a useful employment of time; but…

— John Quincy Adams

In what light soever we regard the Bible, whether with reference to revelation, to history, or to morality, it is an invaluable…

— John Quincy Adams

Is not the brand of 'double-dealer' stamped on the forehead of every democratic slaveholder? Are not fraud and hypocrisy the religion of…

— John Quincy Adams

I have myself, for many years, made it a practice to read through the Bible once ever year… My custom is, to…

— John Quincy Adams

My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the…

— John Quincy Adams

There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel…

— John Quincy Adams

It is no slight testimonial, both to the merit and worth of Christianity, that in all ages since its promulgation the great…

— John Quincy Adams

I have made it a practice for several years to read the Bible through in the course of every year. I usually…

— John Quincy Adams

There are three points of doctrine the belief of which forms the foundation of all morality. The first is the existence of…

— John Quincy Adams

Of all persecuted sects, the Baptists stand forth as most prominent, simply and only because they aim at a more complete and…

— John Quincy Adams

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures! The…

— John Quincy Adams

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made…

— John Quincy Adams

Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful…

— John Quincy Adams

Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality…

— John Quincy Adams

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes…

— John Quincy Adams

Religious discord has lost her sting; the cumbrous weapons of theological warfare are antiquated: the field of politics supplies the alchymists of…

— John Quincy Adams