I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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

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.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

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.

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.

One of the first duties of a Scout is obedience to authority. He must obey his orders in the first place and put his own amusement or desires in the second.

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.

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.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

A jug fills drop by drop.

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.

It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

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

Actions are visible, though motives are secret.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

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

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

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

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

Talking to a player helps, but in our sport the majority of learning happens from watching another player. You pick up things like being punctual, being nice to everyone, making sure you give your 100 per cent even in training.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d rather not.

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

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

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

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

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.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I do not raise brats!

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

I think one’s feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?