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

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

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

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’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels – men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Justice will overtake fabricators of lies and false witnesses.

Because of lack of moral principle, human life becomes worthless. Moral principle, truthfulness, is a key factor. If we lose that, then there is no future.

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

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

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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.

Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

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.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I just want to lobby for God.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

The object of the superior man is truth.

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.

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.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

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.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

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

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

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

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.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.