Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

A witty saying proves nothing.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Faith never makes a confession.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Next to religion, baseball has had a greater impact on our American way of life than any other American institution.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

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

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

‚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.

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

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

The point – the power to hurt – of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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.

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.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

I consider myself to be as informed on American foreign policy as anyone in America.

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

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

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.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

I 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.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Every man lives in two realms: the internal and the external. The internal is that realm of spiritual ends expressed in art, literature, morals, and religion. The external is that complex of devices, techniques, mechanisms, and instrumentalities by means of which we live.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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.