New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

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

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

I have been chosen by God Almighty to be one of his messengers.

The ultimate connection is when you are connected to the creator of the universe.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.

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.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

You cannot be President of the United States if you don’t have faith. Remember Lincoln, going to his knees in times of trial in the Civil War and all that stuff.

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

Thank 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.

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.

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

I was reared in the church, in the Presbyterian Church.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Sin, also for those who don’t have faith, exists when one goes against one’s conscience. To listen to and obey it means, in fact, to decide in face of what is perceived as good or evil. And on this decision pivots the goodness or malice of our action.

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.

One truth stands firm. All that happens in world history rests on something spiritual. If the spiritual is strong, it creates world history. If it is weak, it suffers world history.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

When you are spiritually connected, you are not looking for occasions to be offended, and you are not judging and labeling others. You are in a state of grace in which you know you are connected to God and thus free from the effects of anyone or anything external to yourself.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

I pray while driving. I pray while working, and while relaxing.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

Christianity is a lifestyle. And being a Christian is more than a label.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I’m just telling you, God permits things in our lives sometimes for reasons that we do not understand yet because of the spiritual level that we’re on. We can’t have any understanding of it, because we’re not at a place of spiritual growth yet where we understand the deeper things of God.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

I read the ‚Old Testament‘ all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I read ‚The Origin Of Species‘, hallucinating very mildly because I was in bed with flu at the time. Despite that, or because of that, it all made perfect sense.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

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

It’s in the difficult times that we’re growing and you can’t just rebuke everything hard. We’ve got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.