If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

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

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.

My mother always used to say, ‚Well, if you had been born a little girl growing up in Egypt, you would go to church or go to worship Allah, but surely if those people are worshipping a God, it must be the same God‘ – that’s what she always said. The same God with different names.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

I will never say something I don’t agree with or believe in… even if the reward is massive!

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

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.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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.

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

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

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

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.

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.

A fundamentalist can’t bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

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

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

The only thing I have to go by is what my mother and father told me, how I was brought up.

Faith never makes a confession.

I was raised by a mother who told me I was great every day of my life.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

There are a lot of self-imposed restrictions by people who somehow believe they have to fall in with a certain military cant. There was always a sense that we had to put things into words that would touch our troops‘ hearts, not just their heads.

I grew up around lots of men – my father, my brothers, my uncles – so I wasn’t intimidated by them.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

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.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn’t wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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.

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

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.