There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

There is a rumour going around that I have found God. I think this is unlikely because I have enough difficulty finding my keys, and there is empirical evidence that they exist.

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

More than anything, I like a jacket. You can do anything with a great jacket, the bigger the better. You can have any silhouette underneath. It gives you an attitude. It makes a gown look cool.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

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.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

Faith is permitting ourselves to be seized by the things we do not see.

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

I’m a songwriter. Everything affects me.

There is no remedy for love but to love more.

My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

I believe that a government has only one religion – India first. A government has only one holy book – our Constitution. A government has only one kind of devotion – towards nation.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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.

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.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

We conceal it from ourselves in vain – we must always love something. In those matters seemingly removed from love, the feeling is secretly to be found, and man cannot possibly live for a moment without it.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

Football is a sad game.

This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Heaven gives us hope and makes our present burdens easier to bear.

God to me is love.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

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?

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

Where knowledge ends, religion begins.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Everything is subject to change except God Himself.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend to her.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

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

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

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Anger cannot be dishonest.

Tears are the silent language of grief.

Sometimes you can’t prioritise family and you feel guilty.