I just don’t believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.
Dan QuayleI 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.
Charles SpurgeonThe faith that stands on authority is not faith.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma GandhiIf Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
Charles SpurgeonThere must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
William JamesIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.
Mr. TTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireJesus 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.
BonoNext to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis BaconMen in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius CaesarChristianity 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.
John LennonNo religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamChrist was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.
Billy GrahamReligion 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.
VoltaireAs you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.
Joyce MeyerWhat the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.
Albert CamusIf I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret AtwoodMy religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.
Ray BradburyMen do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.
Fyodor DostoevskyI’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.
Margaret AtwoodI’m a Christian by choice.
Barack ObamaA beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.
Pope FrancisI have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
Abraham LincolnIt is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.
Thomas JeffersonFaith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
William JamesThat I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
Abraham LincolnMy dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
Christopher HitchensI believe Karl Marx could have subscribed to the Sermon on the Mount.
Fidel CastroThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaWe must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. LewisSo far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.
Narendra ModiIf you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalIt was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinGod always wants us to be growing.
Joel OsteenReligion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaHappiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.
Gilbert K. ChestertonMy message is that God is a good God.
Joel OsteenI was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.
Lou HoltzChristianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
C. S. LewisThey say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?
Kanye WestLies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltI don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.
Joel OsteenI don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
Jimmy CarterLet not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!
Charles SpurgeonI believe that Jesus was, you know, the Son of God. And I understand that… we need to be really, really respectful to people who find that ridiculous and… preposterous.
BonoThere are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.
Charles SpurgeonI believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
Joyce MeyerThe religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.
Alan WattsIf 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!
Blaise PascalReligion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
Karl MarxTo see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
John RuskinThat God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.
Jean-Paul SartreI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterIf I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don’t believe in it.
Karl LagerfeldIf you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian EnoTo say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin