Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis BaconScience is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.
Stephen HawkingMy message is that God is a good God.
Joel OsteenWhen Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you’d been the only man in the world.
C. S. LewisIf there is no God, everything is permitted.
Fyodor DostoevskyIf you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed.
Stephen HawkingI ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.
Kanye WestGod’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuAny religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.
Martin Luther King, Jr.All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.
Kanye WestWe are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheEvery church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.
Friedrich NietzscheNever explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
Elbert HubbardI answer only to God.
Mr. TIndeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.
Russell M. NelsonThe Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Thich Nhat HanhIt ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.
Mark TwainThose are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.
Groucho MarxThe marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.
Hermann HesseI don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.
Arthur C. ClarkeBeing brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.
Dolly PartonWe should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
Narendra ModiOne’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.
Mahatma GandhiWe can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai LamaIf you are part of a religion that very strongly insists that you believe then to decide not to do that is quite a big hurdle to jump over. You never forget the thought process you went through. It becomes part of your whole intellectual picture.
Brian EnoI’m an idealist without illusions.
John F. KennedyI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert EinsteinSeemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.
Billy GrahamI’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.
Joel OsteenA religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma GandhiTo me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.
Margaret ThatcherWhat 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiGod does not play dice.
Albert EinsteinMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James MadisonWhere knowledge ends, religion begins.
Benjamin DisraeliA Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.
Pope FrancisIt is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
Thomas JeffersonI’m opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
J. K. RowlingI don’t think that a same-sex marriage is the way God intended it to be.
Joel OsteenAll of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas SowellMan is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.
Billy GrahamIf you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
Billy GrahamI gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LewisAt the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. WashingtonWhatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
Baruch SpinozaMy belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.
Joel OsteenSuperstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund BurkeWhen you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.
Christopher HitchensI am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
John F. KennedyI 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 LincolnI remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
BonoSay what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. MenckenFreedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
Ronald ReaganIn great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
Abraham LincolnI am a Marxist Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.
Fidel CastroAll religions have been made by men.
Napoleon BonaparteAre creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
Mahatma GandhiI don’t let my religious world get too complicated.
Bono