The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

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.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.

The worker of the world has nothing to lose, but their chains, workers of the world unite.

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

Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world’s diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

Remember that the revolution is what is important, and each one of us, alone, is worth nothing.

Every day I pray about all I do.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

We don’t want two-tier people in America. Those who are legal but not citizens, and citizens.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

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

God has equipped you to handle difficult things. In fact, He has already planted the seeds of discipline and self-control inside you. You just have to water those seeds with His Word to make them grow!

We want justice, but at the same time, we gotta love and come together and bring unity, and I feel it’s gonna happen.

Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn’t expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

We need to try to unite audiences, unite countries, join musical tastes, unite people.

How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.

I’m a Christian – I really don’t believe in UFOs.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

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

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common.

Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor – over each other.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death… these are things that unite us all.

We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher,‘ ‚Prophet,‘ ‚Really nice guy’… this is not how Jesus thought of Himself. So you’re left with a challenge in that, which is either Jesus was who he said he was or a complete and utter nut case. You have to make a choice on that.

We should pass the U.N.’s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don’t. We need to delink terrorism from religion – to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.