I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.
Mr. TThe Koran shows every sign of being thrown together by human beings, as do all the other holy books.
Christopher HitchensDon’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.
Billy GrahamThe moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.
Bill GatesYou notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.
Christopher HitchensThe Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
Galileo GalileiFor me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinFor where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.
Martin LutherWhen Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.
Joyce MeyerI don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.
Jimmy CarterAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.
Dwight D. EisenhowerReal Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.
Joyce MeyerI am a Catholic because I choose to be a Catholic. And then I go to the Mass because I choose. It is out of my free will.
Paulo CoelhoThe essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma GandhiI 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 ModiThe Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamI was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.
Albert CamusPeople don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.
Kurt VonnegutSay what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H. L. MenckenDo I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.
George W. BushI remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.
BonoI tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus ChristThere is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.
Nikola TeslaJesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.
Jimmy CarterThe Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinNext to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.
Marcus Tullius CiceroYou 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 DylanI’m a Christian by choice.
Barack ObamaIn 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.
Pope FrancisI have always believed in God.
Joel OsteenPeople are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.
Joel OsteenIn 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.
Russell M. NelsonI think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. BushIt does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
Thomas JeffersonWhat the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady GagaTheology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
H. L. MenckenI don’t claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I’m home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, ‚Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.‘
Jimmy CarterReligious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.
James MadisonWe must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
C. S. LewisMy religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma GandhiWe’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.
Kendrick LamarThe greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. ClarkeReligion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaForgiveness is God’s command.
Martin LutherWe all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.
Anthony HopkinsThe only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
Muhammad AliI’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.
Joel OsteenI once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
Henny YoungmanIf God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.
Joyce MeyerChrist didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.
Fidel CastroIf I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon BonaparteUnless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.
EpictetusThere’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Joel OsteenI can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.
Billy GrahamExtremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.
Joyce MeyerThere is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo MachiavelliWhen you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.
Christopher HitchensIf you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.
Billy GrahamReligion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteReligion 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 Marx