I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

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

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

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.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

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.

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

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

I’ve come to the conclusion that mythology is really a form of archaeological psychology. Mythology gives you a sense of what a people believes, what they fear.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

By 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.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

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.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

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

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

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

I believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

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.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

And 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.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

Faith never makes a confession.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice.

Theology is unnecessary.

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

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.