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.

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

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

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?

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

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

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

There are hunters, and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience, and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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.

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

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I’m an atheist.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

I like playing. I wouldn’t be a good coach. I don’t have the patience to be a coach.

Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you’ve conquered human nature.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

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

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

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.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The Gospel has never changed.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

My message is that God is a good God.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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.

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

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.

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

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

These wretched babies don’t come until they are ready.

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.

God to me is love.

He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

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.

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.