The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

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.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

You hear a lot about God these days: God, the beneficent; God, the all-great; God, the Almighty; God, the most powerful; God, the giver of life; God, the creator of death. I mean, we’re hearing about God all the time, so we better learn how to deal with it. But if we know anything about God, God is arbitrary.

Superstition is the poetry of life.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

You 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.

I am a Christian and a Democrat, that’s all.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

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.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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.

This way of life is worth defending.

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

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

Tourism is a very big economic benefit to the Sherpa people, and also, they have very strong ties to their own social attitudes and their own religion, so fortunately, they’re not too influenced by many of our Western attitudes.

The Information Highway intrigues me because I have always been a newshound; I have always been curious about why people believe what they believe.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil’s propagation.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

God always wants us to be growing.

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

There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

I have been a firm believer in the federal structure of our country as enshrined in the Constitution.

Clinicians, academicians, and politicians are often put to a test of faith. In pursuit of their goals, will their religion show or will it be hidden? Are they tied back to God or to man?

I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its Churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.

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.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party’s candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.

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

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

If you have enough people sitting around telling you you’re wonderful, then you start believing you’re fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

My message is that God is a good God.

The gospel to me is simply irresistible.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

Is man one of God’s blunders? Or is God one of man’s blunders?

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

We are not at war against Islam.

Christ didn’t choose the rich to preach the doctrine; he choose 12 poor ignorant workers – that is, he chose the proletariat of the times.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.