I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

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.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

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

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

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.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I think that everybody needs four things in life. Everybody needs something to do regardless of age. Everybody needs someone to love. Everybody needs something to hope for, and, of course, everybody needs someone to believe in.

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

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

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

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

Faith… must be enforced by reason… when faith becomes blind it dies.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

This is my Bible. I am what it says I am. I have what it says I have. I can do what it says I can do.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

God always has patience.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved.

I don’t like allegories.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria – when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

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 do believe in the energy and the productivity of the American business world.

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.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

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

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.