A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it, as long as you really believe 100 percent.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

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.

Every tyrant who has lived has believed in freedom for himself.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

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

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour’s buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.

I’ve been saying for a couple of years now that people need to let God out of the Sunday morning box, that He doesn’t want to just be with you for an hour or two on Sunday morning and then put back in His box to sit there until you have an emergency, but He wants to invade your Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Sure I believe in God and the Devil, but they don’t have to have pitchforks and a long white beard.

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

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

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

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

I’d like to believe that the people that have supported me in my work or identified with me in films, the people that feel they know me, they do and they don’t have misconceptions – they understand. I believe that.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

People just overshoot trying to find God. They’re going outside and trying everything. They don’t realize that it’s right inside themselves.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

If in prayer I come before a throne of grace, the faults of my prayer will be overlooked.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.