People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

The truth is God created us to have relationship with us. He wants to love us and take care of us, and He wants us to love Him. That’s where our walk with Christ has to start.

He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

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

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I read the Bible every day.

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.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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

The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Every natural object is a conductor of divinity and only by coming into contact with them… may we be filled with the Holy Ghost.

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

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

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

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

A subject for a great poet would be God’s boredom after the seventh day of creation.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

I am a Catholic.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

I 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.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Jesus 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.

The first step in a person’s salvation is knowledge of their sin.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

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.

I feel really blessed when people start comparing me with Sachin, but I keep myself focused on my performance and not on such comparisons. I literally worship him, so I don’t see too much in this comparison. No cricketer has been able to score one hundred centuries like Sachin.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

Risk is a part of God’s game, alike for men and nations.

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