To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
BonoI think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I don’t think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths.
Jimmy CarterIf I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
Margaret AtwoodIf you grow up in a very strong religion like Catholicism you certainly cultivate in yourself a certain taste for the intensity of ideas.
Brian EnoI want to look my best for God. So many people have the attitude that if you’re a Christian you’ve got to dress bad, wear an old color, not do anything to your hair, have nothing. It’s no wonder that Christianity is not very attractive. I mean, how many people do you know in a Western culture that’s going to go, ‚Yeah, give me some of that?‘
Joyce MeyerI think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.
Bill GatesMadonna and I are very different. Just saying. We’re very different. I wouldn’t make that comparison at all, and I don’t mean to disrespect Madonna: she’s a nice lady, and she’s had a fantastic, huge career – biggest pop star of all time.
Lady GagaI believe many people feel like God is mad at them.
Joyce MeyerThe major religions, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, they deny somehow that God has a feminine face. However, if you go to the holy texts, you see there is this feminine presence.
Paulo CoelhoBears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
Karl LagerfeldI’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 don’t want to say anything negative about anybody or anything or anybody’s political beliefs. I’ve never done that. I’ve never tried to get involved in those things.
Tom BradyReligion is just mind control.
George CarlinIn 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.
Alan WattsThere are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.
Charles SpurgeonThere’s a reason why the Foo Fighters don’t blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that’s hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn’t really come up, or it just hasn’t felt right.
Dave GrohlThere are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.
Thich Nhat HanhI respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.
Colin PowellReligion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values.
Dalai LamaMy religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
Mahatma GandhiI don’t think a Jewish or Christian or Islamic state is a proper concept. I would object to the United States as a Christian state.
Noam ChomskyWhen men do not have healthy notions of the Divinity, false ideas supplant them, just as in bad times one uses counterfeit money when there is no good money.
VoltaireJesus 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.
Jimmy CarterMy company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
Robert KiyosakiThe bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Friedrich NietzscheMen in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius CaesarTo the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.
Robert Baden-PowellWhen we speak of faith – the faith that can move mountains – we are not speaking of faith in general but of faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Russell M. NelsonWhether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.
Jordan PetersonChristianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.
John LennonI say this everywhere I go: I admire and respect Hillary. She has been a lawyer, a law professor, First Lady of Arkansas, First Lady of the United States, a U.S. Senator, Secretary of State.
Michelle ObamaOur 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 HopkinsStart your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.
Joyce MeyerBy its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinThere are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.
Joyce MeyerNeither the Christian attitude of love for all mankind nor humane hopes for an organized society must cause us to forget that the ‚human stratum‘ may not be homogeneous.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinI 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.
Narendra ModiIt’s very important for Christians to be honest with God, which often, you know, God is much more interested in who you are than who you want to be.
BonoThe God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.
Desmond TutuThe Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.
Billy GrahamGod’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.
Desmond TutuI’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.
Billy GrahamExpectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.
Bill GatesIt is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.
Alice WalkerLet your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!
Pope FrancisI think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.
George W. BushThe more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous HuxleyGood breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
Thomas CarlylePlease think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
Haruki MurakamiI do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.
Albert EinsteinI respect Chris Brown. I’d like to call myself a friend – I don’t know if I’m allowed to do that.
DrakeLet us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George WashingtonI hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.
Jimmy CarterPeople who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
James BaldwinIn the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.
Jordan PetersonI will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMake sure of your commitment to Jesus Christ, and seek to follow Him every day. Don’t be swayed by the false values and goals of this world, but put Christ and His will first in everything you do.
Billy GrahamYou can’t just have slogans, you can’t just have catchy phrases. You have to have an agenda. And I think what the Republican Party has to do, if it’s going to incorporate the tea party efforts in it, is to come up with an agenda that the American people can see, touch, and actually believe in, and something they believe in.
Colin PowellYou’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.
John Kennedy