I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

Religion is just mind control.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

I know people said I wasn’t selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you’re talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

I do like Burial; he’s so curiously clumsy, you can’t help but be moved. It’s so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

You cannot be a conscious Christian without St. Paul. He translated the teachings of Christ into a doctrinal structure that, even with the additions of a vast number of thinkers, theologians and pastors, has resisted and still exists after two thousand years.

It’s always fun to talk about jazz.

Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download.

If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

What I cry out for, like every being, with my whole life and all my earthly passion, is something very different from an equal to cherish: it is a God to adore.

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

I don’t think I’d ever apologise for music I make, no.

I like the way the stories of my relationships sound to music more than the way they look in print, in gossip columns or in me talking about them in interviews. I think it’s a better way of telling the stories.

The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief.

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.

Doing music to pay bills is an uncomfortable situation. I never wanted to be in that situation.

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

I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.

Of course, ‚I Will Always Love You‘ is the biggest song so far in my career. I’m famous for several, but that one has been recorded by more people and made me more money, I think, than all of them. But that song did come from a true and deep place in my heart.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

Friendship… is not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

My grandpa was a preacher.

I can write a song in about an hour if it’s a simple country song.

In spiritual things, it is God who performs all things for you. Rest in Him, then.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

I believe in being an innovator.

I don’t ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, ‚It sounds good!‘ It’s got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.

If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that’s totally nonsense. I am just one human being.

We’re not like robots. God promises to guide us through the Holy Spirit, but He gives us the freedom to make our own decisions.

People are used to music that justifies street culture but something that’s not touched on is why these kids act the way they act, live the way they live.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Judas betrayed Jesus. Lady Red betrayed John Dillinger. Those things happen.

I used to say to my late wife, ‚I have great faith in the American people.‘

I knew the second I finished the first record – ‚House Of Balloons‘ – and had all this material leftover that a trilogy would be best.

A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.

If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.

I never listen to ‚Nevermind.‘ I haven’t listened to it since we put it out. That says something.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

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.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children.