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

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

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

He chose to honor us with His priesthood. So we honor Him by honoring His priesthood – both its power and those who bear it.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

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.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

O, Thou precious Lord Jesus Christ, we do adore Thee with all our hearts. Thou art Lord of all.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Theology is unnecessary.

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.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

The major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

I 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.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

My word will never be as strong as God’s word. All I am is just a vessel, doing His work.

If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability has been led by God in strange and unaccustomed paths to do In His service what He has done in her. And if I could tell you all, you would see how God has done all, and I nothing.

God is speaking to us. But are we listening to Him? When our conscience begins to nudge us for whatever reason, we might have this low-level misery or uneasiness about whatever it is we’ve done or we’re about to do. At times like this, it’s wise to prayerfully consider whether we’re offending God with our actions.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

The American people are bigger than any president. I suppose I have faith in my country and in what it is founded on and the values we hold dear.

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.

I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination – the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.

I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

We are all at times unconscious prophets.

I can tell you from experience that God’s help and presence in our lives is vital. He is the Author of all true success and everything that is good-without Him, we can do nothing of true value.

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.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God’s work everywhere will be your reward.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Some Christians feel guilty when they are doing something that isn’t ‚spiritual.‘ Somehow or another, they feel the need to hurry through the grocery store, dash through the house cleaning, and rush through all the daily aspects of life that seem irrelevant to their faith.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

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

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.