Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

I love it when Muslims go to war with each other, as I do when the Christians do, because it shows there’s no such thing as the Christian world and the Islamic world. That’s all crap.

The people respect and believe in men who fulfill their duty.

Religion is compulsory in English schools, you know.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won’t get played Huh?

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

New York is definitely ready for the word of God.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

There’s been some research in cognitive science, I’m told, that discloses that there have always been perhaps 10 to 15 percent of people who are, as Pascal puts it, so made that they cannot believe. To us, when people talk about faith, it’s white noise.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

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

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in places and all this is not the way to spread the word of Islam. So people realize now that all Muslims are not terrorists.

War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.

We think when God speaks to us, there’s going to be a boom out of Heaven or we’re going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God’s talking to us all the time. He’s talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it’s the Holy Spirit talking to us.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn’t everything.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

Forgiveness is God’s command.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

It’s one thing to be religious, but it’s another thing to make religion your policy.

Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.

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

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

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.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

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!

Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity’s belief in justice, strengthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all.

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

I believe in the battle-whether it’s the battle of a campaign or the battle of this office, which is a continuing battle.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

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.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

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

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Religion is the opium of the masses.