All religions have been made by men.

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.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

We feel and know that we are eternal.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

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.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

Man has throughout the ages been seeking something beyond himself, beyond material welfare – something we call truth or God or reality, a timeless state – something that cannot be disturbed by circumstances, by thought or by human corruption.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

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

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

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.

The Jesuits have a vow to obey the pope, but if the pope is a Jesuit, maybe he should have a vow to obey the superior general… I feel like I’m still a Jesuit in terms of my spirituality, what I have in my heart.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

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.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

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.

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

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

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?

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

What was God doing before the divine creation?

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you’ll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

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

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

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

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.

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

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

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Coincidences are spiritual puns.