My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

I don’t believe in colleges and universities.

I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

After it is all over, the religion of man is his most important possession.

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.

Fighting for one’s freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again.

Trust, but verify.

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

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.

‚Lives‘ is one of those books I should really have written when I was younger. It is the classic childhood, adolescence, breakthrough-into-maturity book. Every beginning writer has that material – and after that, you’re not sure what you can do.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

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?

I am a Catholic.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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

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

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

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?

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

You stay teachable most by reading books. By reading what other people went through.

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 care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

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

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

I’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.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

The Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

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.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

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.

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.

I don’t write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

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

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Faith never makes a confession.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

For a person who grew up in the ’30s and ’40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, ‚Here I am, read me.‘ Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.