I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

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

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

God to me is love.

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.

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

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

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Despite 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.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

My 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.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

You 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.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

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

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

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

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

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

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

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

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

Religion is just mind control.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

All 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.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.