It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

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

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.

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.

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.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

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

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

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

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

You can’t regulate every lab in the world.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

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

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

I’m an atheist.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

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

I hope I would not be so arrogant as to doubt anyone’s religion or belief.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

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

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.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

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.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

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.

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

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

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

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

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.