Well, I’ll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

Fear is the mother of morality.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

I don’t join the New Atheists. So, for example, I wouldn’t have the arrogance to lecture some mother who hopes to see her dying child in Heaven – that’s none of my business, ultimately. I won’t lecture her on the philosophy of science.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

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

Don’t lie about anything, ever. Lying leads to Hell.

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.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

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

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

The humanists‘ replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow you’ll either save yourself or you’ll be immortal. Of course, that’s a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there’s no ethical progress whatsoever.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

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.

My belief as a Christian is when we receive Christ as salvation, that that gives us a guarantee for Heaven.

Dogs never bite me – just humans.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts.

Through the ages, many of His children have had access to the blessings of the gospel, but many more have not.

If a person is successful, we imagine they are probably also ethical, conscientious and deserving of their good fortune. This obscures the fact that many people who get ahead have done so by doing less than moral actions, which they cleverly disguise from view.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

If you’re put on a pedestal, you’re supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.

Sincere Christians can disagree about the details of Scripture and theology – absolutely.

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

I think where political issues invade moral situations, spiritual leaders have to speak out.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

In this world filled with challenges, we do need help from time to time. Religion, eternal truth, and our missionaries are vital parts of that help.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don’t baptize the children of single mothers because they weren’t conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today’s hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

And whether you’re an honest man, or whether you’re a thief, depends on whose solicitor has given me my brief.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

I didn’t just invent saying offensive things.

In 1995, I was diagnosed with cancer, and I had to practice what I preached. I had always said to ‚believe in God‘ and ‚don’t give up‘ to little kids who had been diagnosed with cancer. I then thought if I can’t call on that same God and same strength that I told people about, I would be a liar and a phony.