I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

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.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

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

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.

There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

Of all religions, the Christian should of course inspire the most tolerance, but until now Christians have been the most intolerant of all men.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

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 believe that the primary role of the government is to protect people and not run their lives. You used to be able to believe that in the Democratic Party.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

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

All great peoples are conservative.

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.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

I am a Catholic.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

It’s not just a matter of whether you support Obama or Romney. It’s who they have coming with them. I always keep my powder dry, as they say in the military.

People love conspiracy theories.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

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

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

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.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.