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.

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.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God’s eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews – everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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

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

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

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

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

And 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.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

‚God‘ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‚Deity‘ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

When men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

I have always believed in God.

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

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

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

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.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

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.

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.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

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

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

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

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

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

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Anyone who is to find Christ must first find the church. How could anyone know where Christ is and what faith is in him unless he knew where his believers are?

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

When I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

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

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 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.

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

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.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

Sabotage did not involve loss of life, and it offered the best hope for future race relations. Bitterness would be kept to a minimum and, if the policy bore fruit, democratic government could become a reality.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

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

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

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

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

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that’s all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

America… just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.