It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.

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.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I have a form of Parkinson’s disease, which I don’t like. My legs don’t move when my brain tells them to. It’s very frustrating.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

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.

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

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.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

We are not at war against Islam.

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

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.

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

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved.

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.

India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

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

To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

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.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

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.

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.

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

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around.

People don’t realise how difficult it is to work with people day in and day out that know absolutely nothing.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

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

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

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

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

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.

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.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

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.

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

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

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.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

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