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

Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

The most powerful idea that’s entered the world in the last few thousand years – the idea of grace – is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

God made me and broke the mold.

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.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

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.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God’s creation.

I really focus on my jeans and sweaters for them to fit really well. There was a time that wasn’t the case.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of ‚passive action,‘ the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

It’s wonderful to climb the liquid mountains of the sky. Behind me and before me is God and I have no fears.

I can’t prove it scientifically, that there’s a God, but I believe.

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

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.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that’s important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

You know, God has some really weird kids, and I find it hard to be in their company most of the time.

Religious organizations exist to foster the interests of persons subscribing to the same religious faith. Not so of for-profit corporations. Workers who sustain the operations of those corporations commonly are not drawn from one religious community.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

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.

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.

The difficulty for most of us in the modern world is that the old-fashioned idea of God has become incredible or implausible.

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

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

There 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.

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course.

I do not think I should care to go on worshipping a Madonna even if she did wink. One cannot make much out of a wink. We want something more than that from the object of our adoration.

Allah’s the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

God’s love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

I just want to lobby for God.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

In legal language, a covenant generally denotes an agreement between two or more parties. But in a religious context, a covenant is much more significant. It is a sacred promise with God. He fixes the terms.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn’t. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

God to me is love.

The truths of religion are never so well understood as by those who have lost the power of reason.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

A lot of churches have not moved with the times.

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

What I call my ‚self‘ now is hardly a person at all. It’s mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

I don’t think there’s anyone who would say they don’t want or need more of God’s power in their life.