The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

I think the War on Terror is really absurd, especially coming from a country that is founded on terrorism.

I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don’t know.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

Religion and philosophy are to be preserved distinct. We are not to introduce divine revelations into philosophy, nor philosophical opinions into religion.

No violent extreme endures.

I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith. The gentle figure of Christ, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek – I thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

You notice how liberals keep saying, ‚If only Islam would have a Reformation‘ – it can’t have one. It says it can’t. It’s extremely dangerous in that way.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

I do not doubt that we would become more useful if we praised God more, and others would join us, for they would see that God has blessed us.

Faith never makes a confession.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

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 answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

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.

The appropriate response to terrorist crimes is police work, which has been successful worldwide.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I have something in common with Nazis in that I am opposed to the radical Left. And when you oppose the radical Left, you end up being a part of a much larger group that includes Nazis in it.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

God’s first creature, which was light.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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

After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

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’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

The Oklahoma City bombing was simple technology, horribly used. The problem is not technology. The problem is the person or persons using it.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

God to me is love.

The community – more than two billion people use our products, and we get that, with that, a lot of people are using that for a lot of good, but we also have a responsibility to mitigate the darker things that people are gonna try to do.

Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

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

People define Christianity differently. I think a large portion of our population are Christians, they’re not all growing in their faith, they’re not all active, but I believe that a lot of people believe in Jesus and believe that he is their Lord and Savior.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

Basically, Islamic State is a combined al Qaeda and Lebanese Hezbollah on steroids, destabilizing the region, dissolving borders/changing the political geography in the Mid-east, and hardening political positions that make Mid-east peace-building more remote by the day.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.

No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.