I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

Bigotry is the sacred disease.

When you turn your heart and your life over to Christ, when you accept Christ as the savior, it changes your heart.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

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!

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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

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.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.

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

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

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

When I was president, I announced and I still maintain that I can live with Roe v. Wade. I did everything I possibly could as president under that ruling, which I don’t think ought to be changed, to minimize the need for abortions. I think every abortion is a result of a horrible series of errors on the part of people involved.

This administration here and now declares unconditional war on poverty.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

I answer only to God.

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

Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

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

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

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.

The notion that we have even one single veteran living on the streets should be just considered a travesty to all of us.

When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

If people continue to feel like Democrats are looking after poor folks and Republicans are looking after rich folks and nobody is looking after me, then we don’t get a lot of stuff done. And the trend lines evidence the fact that folks have gotten squeezed. And obviously, 2007, 2008 really ripped open for people how vulnerable they were.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

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.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

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.

I am a Catholic.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

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.