No religion has mandated killing others as a requirement for its sustenance or promotion.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. Indeed, it is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it.

I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

We must begin seeing other creatures as equal. Existence makes us all equal.

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.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

Love of God is not always the same as love of good.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

My message is that God is a good God.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

War does not determine who is right – only who is left.

We teach that God’s love for His children is infinite.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

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.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Christ was God in human flesh, and He proved it by rising from the dead.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world… to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.

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

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm – not all – that religion used to fill.

We cannot be both the world’s leading champion of peace and the world’s leading supplier of the weapons of war.

If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person.

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

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

A Christian who does not pray for those who govern is not a good Christian.

A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation.

Peace can be contributed to by respect for our ability in defense.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

It is well known that the Soviet Union closely regulates all organizations and movements, including religion.