A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I say, don’t try to fight your own battles because God will do it.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

Non-violence is the article of faith.

I believe God gives you the grace to do what you need to do.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

I want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Our God is a forgiving God.

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.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

Whoever seeks to set one religion against another seeks to destroy all religion.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

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

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Religion is just mind control.

I’m in awe of the universe, but I don’t necessarily believe there’s an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a passion for the visual in religious rituals, though, even though they may be completely empty and bereft of substance. The incense is powerful and provocative, whether Buddhist or Catholic.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

It sounds simple telling people to work hard and never quit, but to really execute and demonstrate those principles takes discipline and faith. Those are the two factors that I believe separate the good from the great, the successes from the failures.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

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.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

You don’t have to give way to careless speech or complaining. You don’t have to let your feelings get in the way of what God wants to do in your life.

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

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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.

The Gospel has never changed.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.