I’m an atheist.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

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.

A covenant made with God should be regarded not as restrictive but as protective.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Religion is just mind control.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

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.

God doesn’t dwell in the wooden, stony or earthen idols. His abode is in our feelings, our thoughts.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

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

To Follow by faith alone is to follow blindly.

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.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person’s life. God is in everyone’s life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else – God is in this person’s life. You can – you must – try to seek God in every human life.

I haven’t trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I’ve never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

I’m just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.

Christians are not limited to any church.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

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

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

God is everywhere.

And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

We are not at war against Islam.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

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.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

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.

There cannot be a God because if there were one, I could not believe that I was not He.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

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.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

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.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

Let no such man be trusted.

Hate has no place in the house of God.