I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

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I believe that God has planted in every heart the desire to live in freedom.

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.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

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

God’s first creature, which was light.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn’t.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

God is everywhere.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

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

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.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Theology is unnecessary.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

All 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.

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

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

All religions have been made by men.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

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.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

By that sin fell the angels.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.