I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

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.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

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.

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.

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

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

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

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and ‚superlive,‘ as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

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.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

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

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

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

God to me is love.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

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

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 Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

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.

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.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

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

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

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.