Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Don’t be misled by those who claim God doesn’t exist, because He does.

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.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

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

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

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.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I truly believe that when the history books are written, our age will be remembered for three things: the war on terror, the digital revolution, and what we did – or did not do – to put the fire out in Africa. History, like God, is watching what we do.

‚Fahrenheit 451‘ postulates a lot of things I didn’t want to have happen.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Make no mistake about why these babies are here – they are here to replace us.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

Religion is just mind control.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society. And I think talking in everyday terms and making sure people can understand it – I think that’s important.

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

I have always believed in God.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

When Jesus comes to live in our hearts, the seed of holiness is planted.

As a member of the Church, you have made sacred covenants with the Lord.

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.

In many ways, when you’re a Nobel peace laureate, you have an obligation to humankind, to society.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

I am certain no one sets out to be cruel, but our treatment of the elderly ill seems to have no philosophy to it. As a society, we should establish whether we have a policy of life at any cost.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

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

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

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

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

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

Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one’s own religion.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing – not only by our words – that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

Our God is a forgiving God.

My children, to the extent that they have found religion, have found it from me, in that I insist on at least a modicum of religious education for them.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as ‚evolver,‘ is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

Real Christianity can be summed up in two commands: Love God, and love people.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

I don’t think even ungodly people realize what a society would be like that had no godly influence at all.

So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.