I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

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

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

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

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

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.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

Sin is geographical.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

Propaganda is amazing. People can be led to believe anything.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

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.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

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.

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

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

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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.

There’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.

I believe in universal health care. And I am not afraid to say so.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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.

Saints need sinners.