The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

Actors are one family over the entire world.

There are two great forces, God’s force of good and the devil’s force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don’t understand.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.

I think God’s going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

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

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

If ever I expected to come face to face with an angry Christian fundamentalist, it wasn’t in FAO Schwarz.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

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

The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

The point in history at which we stand is full of promise and danger. The world will either move forward toward unity and widely shared prosperity – or it will move apart.

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

In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

God made me and broke the mold.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

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.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.

Man was made at the end of the week’s work, when God was tired.

What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all – the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead.

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.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

We can’t afford to be killing one another.

America isn’t Congress. America isn’t Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.

It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

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

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Faith must trample under foot all reason, sense, and understanding.

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

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.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.