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

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

If people lose faith in their government, the result is the same whether or not the loss of confidence is justified.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

It’s not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people are good at annihilating people. Maybe that’s their gift.

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

He who doesn’t pray to the Lord prays to the devil.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

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

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

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place, oblige it to control itself.

People don’t come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

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

The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

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 must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ can be bolstered as we learn about Him and live our religion. The doctrine of Jesus Christ was designed by the Lord to help us increase our faith.

The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It’s the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

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

I serve God.

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.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize, in positive ways to help society.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, ‚Hey, I did my religious duty.‘ That’s fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you’re talking to God. Even if it’s in your thoughts.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

The God who existed before any religion counts on you to make the oneness of the human family known and celebrated.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose crimes they were minded to punish in order that a complete reverse of fortune might make them suffer more bitterly.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

One of the peculiarities of Delhi is that the term ‚reform‘ is associated only with passing of laws in Parliament. In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various level of the government, in work practices and procedures.

Someday, the capitalist system will disappear in the United States, because no social class system has been eternal. One day, class societies will disappear.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.