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.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King’s daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

I think there’s a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they want from art. In fact, I very specifically think that they are same thing. Not that religion and art are the same, but that they both tap into the same need we have for surrender.

Effective action is always unjust.

Every religious group, while perhaps a majority somewhere, is also inevitably a minority somewhere else. Thus, religious organizations should and do show tolerance toward members of other religious denominations.

The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

Truly, there is a Christian note which makes the whole World vibrate, like an immense gong, in the divine Christ. This note is unique and universal, and in it alone consists the Gospel.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

I don’t think Romney is wacky at all, but religion makes intelligent people say and do wacky things, believe and affirm crazy things. Left on his own, Romney would never have said something like the Garden Of Eden was in Missouri, and will be again.

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.

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

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

I like working-class people, generally speaking.

I serve God.

The separation of church and state is a source of strength, but the conscience of our nation does not call for separation between men of state and faith in the Supreme Being.

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

Wherever there is a settled society, religion is necessary; the laws cover manifest crimes, and religion covers secret crimes.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

Ethics and power are separate.

In the Bible, we first encounter God when he sides with a bunch of slaves against a powerful Pharaoh, an act of grace freely given.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I’m really trying to dredge up what one might call intellectual and moral material. For example, when do you realize that you are an American? What age does that happen to you? When do you realize what religion your parents practice? When does it all become conscious? I was interested in exploring all of that.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

There are some loony people in this world!

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

The story being told in ‚Star Wars‘ is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you’re in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they’re actually not.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He’s the Christ, raised from the dead, that He’s his savior – that’s good enough for me.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

My kingdom is not of this world. If it were, my servants would fight to prevent my arrest by the Jews. But now my kingdom is from another place.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

I did not set out to convert anyone to Christianity.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

On some positions, Cowardice asks the question, ‚Is it safe?‘ Expediency asks the question, ‚Is it politic?‘ And Vanity comes along and asks the question, ‚Is it popular?‘ But Conscience asks the question, ‚Is it right?‘

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

So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of India. My government will not tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed and religion.

Violence is both unavoidable and unjustifiable.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.