Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.

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

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

For I can raise no money by vile means.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.

Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Our God is a forgiving God.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

To be is to do.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

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.

No one is pro-abortion.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don’t need to imagine it. It’s called the United States of America.

God made and governs the world invisibly, and has commanded us to love and worship him and no other God; to honor our parents and masters, and love our neighbours as ourselves; and to be temperate, just, and peaceable, and to be merciful even to brute beasts.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

I’m an atheist.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

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

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.

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

Desire of having is the sin of covetousness.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

It’s a disgrace that we have millions of people who are uninsured.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

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

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

The white man is destroying the world.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

When I ask OGs why there’s so much division in the streets, nobody never really knows. But you know one thing that everybody always mention? A woman.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

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.

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

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

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

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

There are two types of poor people, those who are poor together and those who are poor alone. The first are the true poor, the others are rich people out of luck.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?