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.

The most remarkable discovery in all of astronomy is that the stars are made of atoms of the same kind as those on the earth.

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

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

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.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

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

Music can change the world because it can change people.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet – the only one in the whole Milky Way – with a century of transportation whoopee.

The roots of the problems we face in the world, in our national life, and in our family and personal lives are spiritual.

I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

Once elected, the Pope is by virtue of the promise of Jesus to Peter, the Pope is preserved from the possibility of error. God would change any spend thrift politician into a responsible Pope.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

Power does not change you, it unmasks you.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Well, I think indigenous peoples have ways of living on the Earth that they’ve had forever. And they’ve been overrun by organized religion, which has had a lot of money and power.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

There is not a separate God for each person. There is one universal intelligence flowing through all of us.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

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.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.