I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said – and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded – ‚It’s like hair color. It’s nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It’s not a subject.‘ This was a very healthy attitude.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

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

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

Man must cease attributing his problems to his environment, and learn again to exercise his will – his personal responsibility in the realm of faith and morals.

I still enjoy watching a batter successfully cross home plate, but nothing thrills me more than seeing the Holy Spirit at work in hearts as the Gospel is carried into stadiums, across the airwaves, and around the world.

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.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

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.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.

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

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you’d would wake up times and hope that the next day you’d be able to be alongside your mother because she was out trying to make sure that I was taken care of. But all I cared about was her being home.

Being a kid’s not easy. You’re transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you’re out in the world.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

I glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.

Lord sanctify us. Oh! That Thy spirit might come and saturate every faculty, subdue every passion, and use every power of our nature for obedience to God.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

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.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

Make sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

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

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

I can’t remember what made my dad take us karting for the first time, I can’t remember really. I was into motorsport by then and I knew everything, and every driver, it was around 2009, 2008. That’s when I first properly knew about Formula One. Those were the days.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Christians are not limited to any church.

All of my writing is God-given.

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.