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

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.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

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

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

I respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith.

Never injure a friend, even in jest.

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

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Freedom does not die from frontal attack. It dies because men in power no longer believe in a system based upon liberty.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.

I’ve had faith my whole life that there was someone looking out for me, a spirit guide, a soul guide.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.

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.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I know a lot of people say they always believed they could get into F1, but I didn’t quite believe that, certainly not when I was 7 and maybe not until I was 14. It was always so far away.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I was being trained because I wanted to be a preacher like my father. I wanted to talk about Moses; I wanted to talk about God… I wanted to talk about the apostles, the disciples and all that.

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

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.

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.