By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

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.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

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

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

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 do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Christians are not limited to any church.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

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

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

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

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

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?

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

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

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

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

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

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

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.