Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don’t think God categorizes sins.

The rise of capitalist practice and morality brought with it a radical revision of how the commons are treated, and also of how they are conceived.

Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.

For my part, I desire to see the time when education – and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry – shall become much more general than at present, and should be gratified to have it in my power to contribute something to the advancement of any measure which might have a tendency to accelerate the happy period.

Compassion is the basis of morality.

I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I’m super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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.

Religion is just mind control.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever – this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

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.

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

I’m an atheist.

Jesus isn’t lettin‘ you off the hook. The Scriptures don’t let you off the hook so easily… When people say, you know, ‚Good teacher‘, ‚Prophet‘, ‚Really nice guy‘ … this is not how Jesus thought of Himself.

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

The word ‚Christianity‘ is already a misunderstanding – in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

People were saying that David Geffen and I had gotten married and it just blew me away. Not that they thought I was gay, but that they thought I could land a guy that hot.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

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

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

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

Our society strives to avoid any possibility of offending anyone – except God.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

The ‚New Testament‘, now, I quite liked. Jesus had a lot of good things to say, and as for his father, he must have been highly thought of by the community to work with wood – a material that couldn’t have been widely available in Palestine.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn’t believe that, about other possibilities?

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Start your week off right by getting back to what is really important – honoring God.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?

I’ve sat in sushi bars, really fine ones, and I know how hard this guy worked, how proud he is. I know you don’t need sauce. I know he doesn’t even want you to pour sauce. And I’ve seen customers come in and do that, and I’ve seen him, as stoic as he tries to remain, I’ve seen him die a little inside.

The suicide-bombing community is not absolutely 100 percent religious, but it is pretty nearly 100 percent religious.

When you hear people demanding that the Ten Commandments be displayed in courtrooms and schoolrooms, always be sure to ask which set. It works every time.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.