Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

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

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I’m stating facts.

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

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

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.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.

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

It’s clearly a budget. It’s got a lot of numbers in it.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Industry need not wish.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

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

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

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

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

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.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

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.

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

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.