So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.

God does not discriminate against people, regardless of color, religion, social class, or gender and sexual preferences.

The Coptic Church respects the law but it does not accept rulings that go against the Bible and our freedom of religion.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.

Religions do make claims about the universe--the same kinds of claims that scientists make, except they're usually false.

To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

It seems to me that Islam and Christianity and Judaism all have the same god, and he's telling them all different things.

Pakistan is not the torch-bearer of Islam, and if I change my country, it doesn't mean that I have to change my religion.

Remember always that we are pattern-seeking primates who are especially adept at finding patterns with emotional meaning.

Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.

One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.

While I cannot be regarded as a pillar, I must be regarded as a buttress of the church, because I support it from outside.

Tell yourself right now and throughout today, that it's okay to draw away from the maddening crowd. Jesus did; so can you.

I've got no problem with anybody's religion. But if you go claiming the Earth is only 10,000 years old, that's just wrong.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

The national Government sees in both Christian denominations the most important factor for the maintenance of our society.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

No future life could heal the degradation of having been a woman. Religion in the world had nothing but insults for women.

All the religions are basically good, but there's something about organised religion that leads to corruptness and poison.

Of course God is endlessly multi-dimensional so every religion that exists on earth represents some face, some side of God.

Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one.

I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I believe that whether a person follows any religion or not is unimportant, he or she must have a good heart, a warm heart.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

BATH, n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.

God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

The only time anyone's admitted they were a Christian before was when they were busy telling me why they're better than me.

Any time you get serious about using your life the way God wants you to use it, there are going to be people who oppose it.

No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Not everybody feels religion the same way. Some it's in their mouth, but some it's like a hope in their blood, their bones.

Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.

Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.

If religion has given birth to all that is essential in society, it is because the idea of society is the soul of religion.

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