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.

Travel teaches toleration.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

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

My message is that God is a good God.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Theology is unnecessary.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

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

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

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

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

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

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.

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.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

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

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

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

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

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

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

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

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

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center.

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

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

As for our majority… one is enough.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

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

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

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

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.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

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

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.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.