If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

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.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I 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.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

People 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.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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.

God 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?

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

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

I am a Catholic.

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

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

I 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.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

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.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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

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.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

We are not at war against Islam.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

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

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 did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.