Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

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

It’s an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important… and to feel that you’re being published by people who really don’t get it and/or don’t really care.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

I’m a Christian by choice.

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.

If you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

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

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

God always wants us to be growing.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

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.

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

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

The Gospel has never changed.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

I know My God commands, whose power no power resists.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

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

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

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

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

Religion is not going to come up with any new arguments.

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

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.

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

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

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.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

Faith never makes a confession.