As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

So you cannot, as a Christian, walk away from Africa.

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.

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

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

Faith never makes a confession.

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

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.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

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.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

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.

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

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it’s not religion, but you can train through education.

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

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle’s light.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

I’m an atheist.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

My problem is I am Christian, so I think other people must have success, too; it’s not about me.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

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

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.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

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.

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.

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.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples‘ money.