Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

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

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Religion is just mind control.

They say miracles are past.

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

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

Spiritual worldliness kills! It kills the soul! It kills the Church!

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

I 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.

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.

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.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

To the best of my judgment, I have labored for, and not against, the Union. As I have not felt, so I have not expressed any harsh sentiment towards our Southern brethren. I have constantly declared, as I really believed, the only difference between them and us is the difference of circumstances.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

Faith never makes a confession.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

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

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

It’s not the tools that you have faith in – tools are just tools. They work, or they don’t work. It’s people you have faith in or not. Yeah, sure, I’m still optimistic I mean, I get pessimistic sometimes but not for long.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

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.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

If you will do what God tells you to do, there’s no person on Earth and no devil in Hell that can keep you from having what God wants you to have.

There is no conflict between the ideal of religion and the ideal of science, but science is opposed to theological dogmas because science is founded on fact. To me, the universe is simply a great machine which never came into being and never will end. The human being is no exception to the natural order. Man, like the universe, is a machine.

You just have to have a simple faith.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

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

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

For those of you who do not know Him, choosing your eternal home is the most important decision you will ever make.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

I’m working at trying to be a Christian, and that’s serious business. It’s like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy – it’s serious business.

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

We are not at war against Islam.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The just is close to the people’s heart, but the merciful is close to the heart of God.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

Writing is a solitary experience. I’m extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It’s so intimate, I can’t even share it with my wife.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

For me to talk with Obama and the conversation I had with him, I was letting him know that me and my fans have a special connection, and it’s love, and I believe that love is the answer.