To me, ideology is corrupt; it’s a parasite on religious structures. To be an ideologue is to have all of the terrible things that are associated with religious certainty and none of the utility. If you’re an ideologue, you believe everything that you think. If you’re religious, there’s a mystery left there.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

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

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

I don’t really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don’t. I really don’t. Look, if you’re a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we’re trying to accomplish. If you’re not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

Faith never makes a confession.

Scoutcraft is a means through which the veriest hooligan can be brought to higher thought and to the elements of faith in God; and, coupled with the Scout’s obligation to do a good turn every day, it gives the base of Duty to God and to Neighbour on which the parent or pastor can build with greater ease the form of belief that is desired.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I did study religion for a little while. I studied the Torah and the Holy Koran, Helios Biblos, which is considered by most people to be the Holy Bible. I just wanted to know, even with Buddhism and the Dalai Llama.

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.

I am one of those people who believes that the solution to the world’s problems is to be found behind the Iron Curtain.

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.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Corruption is one of the most common reasons I hear in views that criticize aid.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

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

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

One’s own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one’s Maker and no one else’s.

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of a surety that Jesus manifests Himself unto His people as He doth not unto the world.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

To be Catholic is the only way of being fully and utterly Christian.

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Gold was a gift to Jesus. If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.