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.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

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

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

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.

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.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

I’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

I’m no longer just a candidate. I’m the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn’t return. I’ve shared the pain of families who’ve lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who’ve lost their jobs.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

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.

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

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel.

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

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.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

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

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

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

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

The Gospel has never changed.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If 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.

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Men do not accept their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and worship those whom they have tortured to death.

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

The Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

The object of the superior man is truth.

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

I had a C-section, and I found it fascinating. I didn’t find it a sacrifice, and I didn’t find it a painful experience. I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

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

A leader who confines his role to his people’s experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people’s experience runs the risk of not being understood.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

God always wants us to be growing.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Christians are not limited to any church.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.