Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Trouble brews when we steal from the poor and give to the rich.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

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.

When the President does it, that means that it’s not illegal.

Repeal the Missouri Compromise – repeal all compromises – repeal the Declaration of Independence – repeal all past history, you still cannot repeal human nature. It will be the abundance of man’s heart that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.

Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists‘ morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.

I 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.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

The word ‚good‘ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

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

It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

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

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.

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

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

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

In time of war the laws are silent.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Richard Nixon was an evil man – evil in a way that only those who believe in the physical reality of the Devil can understand it. He was utterly without ethics or morals or any bedrock sense of decency.

He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it.

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

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

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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

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.