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.
Anthony HopkinsBelief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise PascalReligion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.
Hosea BallouMen create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.
AristotleI don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.
John LennonI’ve always believed in God. I also think that’s the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you’re in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.
Stephen KingI 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.
Terry PratchettReligion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteThere is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Niccolo MachiavelliThe violence in the Bible is appalling.
Christopher HitchensNo sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark TwainYou can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
Joel OsteenSo far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.
Bertrand RussellI don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.
Arthur C. ClarkeFear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma GandhiAll of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas SowellThe highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
Abraham LincolnWhether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
Dalai LamaTo 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.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThe United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.
Barack ObamaI believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.
Mr. TThe most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.
Bertrand RussellBut for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
Mahatma GandhiAll 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.
Kanye WestI’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.
Paul AusterDon’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.
Billy GrahamWhen it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.
VoltaireI 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.
Charles SpurgeonI have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.
Narendra ModiAs I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of ‚easy believism.‘ There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
Billy GrahamEverybody 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.
Denzel WashingtonThe difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas CarlyleWell, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.
Christopher HitchensPolitics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul SartreNot only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
Woody AllenMy dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
Christopher HitchensI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert EinsteinWherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.
VoltaireA good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson MandelaThe greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.
Arthur C. ClarkeI don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!
John LennonIt 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.
Bertrand RussellPeople define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.
Joel OsteenNo matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThere’s plenty about God that I don’t understand and can’t explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He’s for us.
Joel OsteenThere is no scriptural basis for segregation.
Billy GrahamIt is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Blaise PascalI’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.
Joel OsteenGod’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuI was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.
Clint EastwoodI have said a hundred times, and I have no inclination to take it back, that I believe there is no right, and ought to be no inclination in the people of the free States to enter into the slave States, and to interfere with the question of slavery at all. I have said that always.
Abraham LincolnGod’s first creature, which was light.
Francis BaconThe Bible is clear – God’s definition of marriage is between a man and a woman.
Billy GrahamPuny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.
Kurt VonnegutMormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.
Joel OsteenNext to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis BaconI do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
Baruch SpinozaWhen I do good I feel good, when I do bad I feel bad, and that’s my religion.
Abraham LincolnReligion is the opium of the masses.
Karl MarxI glory in the distinguishing grace of God and will not, by the grace of God, step one inch from my principles or think of adhering to the present fashionable sort of religion.
Charles Spurgeon