Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.
Pope FrancisI never went to school more than six months in my life, but I can say this: that among my earliest recollections, I remember how, when a mere child, I used to get irritated when anybody talked to me in a way I could not understand.
Abraham LincolnJesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.
BonoTo believe in God is impossible not to believe in Him is absurd.
VoltaireMerchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Thomas JeffersonReligion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.
Bertrand RussellI believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.
Narendra ModiNothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund BurkeI answer only to God.
Mr. TThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnWe can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
Dalai LamaIndia has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.
Mark TwainFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor RooseveltWhen Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Joyce MeyerI’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.
Brian EnoScience investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.And if a person is religious, I think it’s good, it helps you a bit. But if you’re not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe.
Maya AngelouReligion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.
James MadisonIn the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.
Desmond TutuI know My God commands, whose power no power resists.
Robert GreeneCanada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources… India’s requirements and Canada’s surplus are a perfect match.
Narendra ModiI am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.
Mr. TI don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.
Christopher HitchensWhen I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.
Joel OsteenOnly God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.
Billy GrahamSkeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
Carl SaganCommunism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.
Billy GrahamYou hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.
Bob DylanGod may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.
Stephen HawkingMy 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.
Ray BradburyAnd I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.
James MadisonIn politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander HamiltonWhen they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
Michelle ObamaIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.
Maya AngelouI always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren’t there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.
Angelina JolieI don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonReligion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
Hosea BallouThe people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
Pope FrancisThe first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl MarxWell, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.
George H. W. BushTo the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Robert Baden-PowellThere 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.
Charles SpurgeonI just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.
Lando NorrisI’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.
Billy GrahamI do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.
Lao TzuIt was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinI don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.
Conor McGregorWhen you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.
Joyce MeyerReligion 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.
Karl MarxI gave in, and admitted that God was God.
C. S. LewisIf any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.
Charles SpurgeonWhen I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.
Abby Lee MillerThank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.
Henry AdamsI 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.
Noam ChomskyThe Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe ‚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.
Terry PratchettA frustration I have is that a lot of people increasingly seem to equate an advertising business model with somehow being out of alignment with your customers. I think it’s the most ridiculous concept.
Mark ZuckerbergBitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.
Maya Angelou