I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

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

God does not play dice.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

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.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Justice is truth in action.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

There is nothing good or evil save in the will.

To the wicked, everything serves as pretext.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

God always wants us to be growing.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Grace is not part of consciousness; it is the amount of light in our souls, not knowledge nor reason.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

I am a just man.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

He who can be, and therefore is, another’s, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

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

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

‚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.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The use of the atomic bomb, with its indiscriminate killing of women and children, revolts my soul.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Morality is a private and costly luxury.