Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

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

The very phrase ‚foreign affairs‘ makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

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

For 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.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

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.

Our God is a forgiving God.

Industry need not wish.

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It’s not my business whether people like or dislike it.

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.

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

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

‚Kiss Land‘ is like a horror movie.

History should be written as philosophy.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

In 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.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all; too much cleverness and too much learning, accompanied with ill bringing-up, are far more fatal.

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

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

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.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

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

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

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.

For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.

One of my major keys is actually the master keys: God.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

As a Western, ‚The Magnificent Seven‘ was a pretty good film. I don’t think it was as interesting or as multi-faceted as ‚Seven Samurai.‘

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

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

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.