Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you’re advancing. If you don’t you’re as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn’t there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

We are not at war against Islam.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

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.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

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.

I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

I have to be seen to be believed.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.

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

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

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

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.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth – often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, uses that something to support their own existence.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I answer only to God.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

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

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

My message is that God is a good God.

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.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

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.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.