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

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them. But if you can go through life without it, that’s OK, too. It’s whatever suits you.

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

I don’t spend that much time being introspective, believe it or not. All I know is that I grew up not questioning God because that’s how you are. God was there like the birds and the wind.

I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man has no dedication nor any membership in literature.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

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

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

Someone said to me, ‚If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?‘ My answer was then and still is, ‚If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong.‘

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

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.

What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I’m not who I say I am when it comes to my faith – something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

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

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I truly believe the things Notre Dame stands for.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

There are very few people who really appreciate my shows. People come to the show and they pay and they enjoy it, but I don’t really think most people really understand what they’ve seen.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

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

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

It doesn’t matter who likes you or doesn’t like you, all that matters is that God likes you. He accepts you, he approves of you.

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

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.

Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don’t do any good, but they don’t necessarily do any harm. It’s touching to be thought of in that way. It makes up for those who tell me that I’ve got my just desserts.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.