The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

We’re all put on this earth to walk in His image, the Master.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

Affluence means influence.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice… they open up to you in ways that somebody visiting who is driven by a story may not get.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

Y’all are so cute and y’all talk so proper over here. I love England.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

I love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

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

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed.

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

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus!

There can never be any stop to learn about different cultures by travelling to different places. And whatever comes your way, continue the healthy eating habits.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

I’m not trying to be sexy. It’s just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Do I think faith will be an important part of being a good president? Yes, I do.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them.

My shopping habits… I am not very brand-conscious about clothes. I buy whatever looks good on me. Likewise, I don’t just shop only in malls or high-end stores.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

I don’t like allegories.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

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.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Here’s the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don’t find it anywhere else.

Mormonism is a little different, but I still see them as brothers in Christ.