I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
Colin PowellYou know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.
Barack ObamaI separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Jimmy CarterThe ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.
Terry PratchettMy message is that God is a good God.
Joel OsteenIn 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.
Alan WattsLondon is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin DisraeliIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.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.
George W. BushGod is everywhere.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhat the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert CamusSuperstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
VoltaireWe 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.
Anthony HopkinsI know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert GreeneCommodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.
Robert KiyosakiWhen we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Russell M. NelsonHappiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
Joyce MeyerThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsYou notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.
Christopher HitchensTo terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?
Christopher HitchensOne of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.
DJ KhaledReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James MadisonWhether 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 EnoThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI 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.
Joel OsteenI agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.
Bill GatesIt’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.
Wayne DyerPeople from all over the world come to London wanting to make their own mark on it, and they add to the energy and vitality of the capital. It’s got a bit busier since the ’60s, but the more the merrier!
Richard BransonYour daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Khalil GibranI’m a Christian by choice.
Barack ObamaI’m an atheist.
Stephen HawkingIf you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalThere is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard ShawThere 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.
Charles SpurgeonQuestion 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.
Thomas JeffersonI don’t let my religious world get too complicated.
BonoAnd 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 AngelouI cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
Friedrich NietzscheReligion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl MarxHe who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIn 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.
Pope FrancisWherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
VoltaireBy its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinOur 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.
Anthony HopkinsGod to me is love.
Kendrick LamarAs a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.
Russell M. NelsonTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireThe just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.
Khalil GibranOne’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Mahatma GandhiSometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.
Joel OsteenIndeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
Russell M. NelsonCommunism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.
Billy GrahamThe U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
Noam ChomskyI think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
Bill GatesMy 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 ChristThe gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.
PlatoMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor Dostoevsky