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

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

God’s first creature, which was light.

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

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

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

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

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

Politically, the world is so confused right now – there’s so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

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

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

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.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

Christians are not limited to any church.

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

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

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

I’m an atheist.

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

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

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

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.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

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 highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

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

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

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

God is so big. It’s a gigantic concept in God. The idea that God might love us and be interested in us is kind of huge and gigantic, but we turn it, because we’re small-minded, into this tiny, petty, often greedy version of God, that is religion.

In California, we have some of the strongest consumer protection laws in the country. While it is easy to conceive of innovation and regulation as mutually exclusive, California is proof that we can do both. We can innovate responsibly.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

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.