In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

We get the exciting result that the total energy of the universe is zero. Why this should be so is one of the great mysteries – and therefore one of the important questions of physics. After all, what would be the use of studying physics if the mysteries were not the most important things to investigate?

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

As we regularly spend time reading God’s Word and talking to Him in prayer, we put ourselves in position for Him to do things in our lives we could never do on our own.

Complaining is dangerous business. It can damage or even destroy your relationship with God, your relationships with other people, and even with your relationship with yourself.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

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.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

When Christians say God has been talking to them about something, it simply means they have a strong inner conviction or feeling that God has made His will known to them.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

God created man, but I could do better.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

We are eternal beings – spirit children of heavenly parents.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe – because, like Spinoza’s God, it won’t love us in return.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

If there really is a god, then he really looks after me.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

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.

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

I’m going to Heaven just like the thief on the cross who said in that last moment: ‚Lord, remember me.‘

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

I don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

The eyes of the soul of the multitudes are unable to endure the vision of the divine.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

I just want to lobby for God.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.