Learning is a daily activity for students. Learning takes place in school, at home, and in the society as well. Motivation is important so that the learning process can be done continuously. On the other hand, high motivation must be balanced with religious attitude so that it can be a strong self-control. Intelligent students but having low religiosity level will lead to sense of emptiness in psychological development when they are adult. Therefore, the objectives of the research are: 1) to analyze students’ learning motivation, 2) to find out students’ religious attitude, 3) to find out the influence of learning motivation toward students’ religious attitude. The research method used mixed methods approach and this research took place at SMP Negeri 1 Kalasan. The time of the research was in April-June 2018 involving 32 samples of Grade VIII from the students of sports special class. The data collection technique used questionnaires, interview, and observation. Meanwhile, data analysis used data reduction, display, and data verification or conclusion. The results of the research are: 1) Students’ learning motivation at SMP Negeri 1 Kalasan is categorized in high category (77.97%) in all indicators. It is proven by the score of learning motivation indicator on driving force (88.28), learning activity (73.24), environment support (80.47), direction and intention (81.51), and behavior change (71.35). 2) The religious attitude of SMP Negeri 1 Kalasan students is categorized very high (86.51%). It can be seen from the religious attitude indicator covering the aspects of faith (95.83), ritual (89.06), experience (80.08), knowledge (77.73), and practice (89.06). 3) Meanwhile, the correlation level shows data that is 0.702 meaning that there is a strong correlation between learning motivation and spiritual attitude. On the other hand, the result of hypothesis test shows the value of tcount on learning motivation variable that is 6.681 while ttable is on the significance level of 5% (α=0.05) and free degree= 30 (32-2) in two-way test is 2.013. Since the value of tcount (6.681) is higher than ttable (2.013), it shows that Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. Thus, the test results conclude that there is a significant influence of learning motivation toward religious attitude. Keywords: learning motivation influence, students’ religious attitude