Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

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

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

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

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

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

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that’s always nice. And if they don’t like them, then too bad.

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.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

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

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

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.

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

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

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.

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

The Gospel has never changed.

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

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.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

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.

As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Well, when you come down to it, I don’t see that a reporter could do much to a president, do you?

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

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.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.