I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

I am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

If you want to make someone feel emotion, you have to make them let go. Listening to something is an act of surrender.

God is patient with us to become the God’s children he wants us to be but you really can see him weeping.

It’s impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

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.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I 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.

God does not play dice.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

Christmas is the perfect time to celebrate the love of God and family and to create memories that will last forever. Jesus is God’s perfect, indescribable gift. The amazing thing is that not only are we able to receive this gift, but we are able to share it with others on Christmas and every other day of the year.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

My 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.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

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.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

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

Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature’s God.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

I just want to lobby for God.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Until you pray, God cannot work.

You might say, ‚Can’t we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?‘ In this way we’d become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians.

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.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

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.

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

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.