It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Neither of my parents went to church, but they did everything that you needed to do to be Christian. That’s something a Quaker would call an intimation of the divine.

Big Brother is watching you.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

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

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

God is everywhere.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

NATO was constructed on the – with the reason, whether one believes it or not, that it was going to defend Western Europe from Russian assault. Once the Berlin Wall fell and the Soviet Union was beginning to collapse, that reason was gone. So, first question: why does NATO exist?

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.