This is America. You’re entitled to believe what you want.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

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

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

Theology is unnecessary.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.

America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

The infinite faith I have in people’s ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

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.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

America’s commitment to collective defense under Article 5 of NATO is a sacred obligation in our view – a sacred obligation not just for now, but for all time.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

I didn’t want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, ‚Why did you do that?‘ This life is a trial, and you realize that what you do is going to be written down for Judgment Day.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

I have nowhere claimed nor even implied that unbelief is a guarantee of good conduct or even an indicator of it.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

I just think that it’s strong and it’s important that we recognize what the Christmas season is about; it’s about the birth of our Savior, and there’s a lot of pressure today to be politically correct, but people are realizing, too, that you have to be open to express your faith what you want believe.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

I don’t believe in death, neither in flesh nor in spirit.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

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

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck.

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.

‚Your Erroneous Zones’ was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I believe there are no questions that science can’t answer about a physical universe.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit’s aid than he can create a world.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them.

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

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