I’m an atheist.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

All formal dogmatic religions are fallacious and must never be accepted by self-respecting persons as final.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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.

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.

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

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

God does not play dice.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

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

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

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.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

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

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

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

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.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

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.

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

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Let no such man be trusted.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

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

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

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.

You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt.

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

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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

I used to carry my father’s Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

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.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.