Such is the feebleness of humanity, such is its perversity, that doubtless it is better for it to be subject to all possible superstitions, as long as they are not murderous, than to live without religion.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I’d be a damn‘ fool if they weren’t.

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren’t random.

Responsibility, I believe, accrues through privilege.

The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

Science is but an image of the truth.

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.

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

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

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

Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that’s all. So we direct our values to material things.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

The Christian’s Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Even the best teams can fail. Celebrities can fade. There is only One in whom your faith is always safe, and that is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And you need to let your faith show!

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

You cannot step into the same river twice.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Christians are not limited to any church.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

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.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

No school of philosophy has ever solved this question of whether being determines consciousness or the other way around. It may be a false antithesis.

In my opinion, there is no aspect of reality beyond the reach of the human mind.

I believe that I have received Jesus Christ into my heart. I believe that he has covered all of my sins.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

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.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

‚Evil men have no songs.‘ How is it that the Russians have songs?

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Let’s pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.

He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.

Nothing can come of nothing.

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?

If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.