If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.
VoltaireI am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. KennedyWe must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
Pope FrancisThe faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MenckenThe Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheI care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnThere is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.
Friedrich NietzscheChristians are not limited to any church.
Billy GrahamIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.
Charles SpurgeonAll religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra ModiTo Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.
Benjamin FranklinIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainAnd if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
Maya AngelouGod to me is love.
Kendrick LamarA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.
AristotleCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamWhen you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.
Joyce MeyerMy religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma GandhiThe number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.
James MadisonWar is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin LutherReligion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel KantMy kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.
Jesus ChristI serve God.
Mr. TWe must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. MenckenOur society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.
Billy GrahamIf a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
Mahatma GandhiOne cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
George OrwellReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
Noam ChomskyIf any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles SpurgeonNo sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark TwainThe real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. LewisI’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
Brian EnoTo be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhat 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiMy religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.
Ray BradburyThe U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
Noam ChomskyMy 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.
David BowieGod is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?
Friedrich NietzscheA beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
Pope FrancisThe close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s – military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.
Noam ChomskyWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaI think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.
Brian EnoMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor DostoevskyChristianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
John LennonPeople define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
Joel OsteenEvery people have gods to suit their circumstances.
Henry David ThoreauWhat the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady GagaAll who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.
Benjamin FranklinPeople are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.
Joel OsteenThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyDespite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.
Pope FrancisI believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.
Joel OsteenThe suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.
Christopher HitchensAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James MadisonIf one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
Pope FrancisMy message is that God is a good God.
Joel OsteenWhat the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert Camus