It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

I am a Catholic.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

The only thing I’m afraid of is bees. I don’t like bees. I’m allergic to them.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

If you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

There is an afterlife. I am convinced of this.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I think God’s justice is making wrongs right.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this time, experiences in the world. And that is so organic – I use this metaphor a lot but I’ll use it again – it’s like a pine tree producing pine cones, or a blackberry bush producing blackberries – it’s just what happens with this being, now.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.