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

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

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.

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

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

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

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

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.

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

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.

What we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

I just want to lobby for God.

The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

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

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

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

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

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.

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

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

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

God is everywhere.

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

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

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

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

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.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.

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

Big Brother is watching you.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Without a tutor to help me in the study of Marxism-Leninism, I was no more than a theorist and, of course, had total confidence in the Soviet Union.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.

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 am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.