The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

It’s amazing to me the number of people who will volunteer to help at church but won’t lift a finger to help at home!

Those who have virtue always in their mouths, and neglect it in practice, are like a harp, which emits a sound pleasing to others, while itself is insensible of the music.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

I think that the Bible teaches that homosexuality is a sin, but the Bible also teaches that pride is a sin, jealousy is a sin, and hate is a sin, evil thoughts are a sin. So I don’t think that homosexuality should be chosen as the overwhelming sin that we are doing today.

You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man’s humanity to man.

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

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

My heart aches for America and its deceived people.

Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

I don’t let my religious world get too complicated.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.

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

Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.

We moralize among ruins.

Every child that isn’t born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord.

God does not play dice.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

I don’t know which will go first – rock ‚n‘ roll or Christianity.

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

We are not at war against Islam.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

Every church is a stone on the grave of a god-man: it does not want him to rise up again under any circumstances.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

The year 2100 will see eugenics universally established. In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

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.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

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.

But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

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.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Those outside the church expect followers of Christ to live differently, yet today many in church are chasing after the world – not to win them, but to be like them.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.