There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written.

The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.

Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts and leisure,...

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit...

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...

Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.

For as long as I care to remember, religion, like the striptease, has always been a display of the power of suggestion. Like the Virgin Birth, it has all too often supported an immaculate deception.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

A gentle Quaker hearing a strange noise in his house one night got up and discovered a burglar busily at work. He went and got his gun came back and stood quietly in the doorway. 'Friend,' he said, 'I...

For we know not what we should pray for.

God keeps the wicked to give them time to repent.

A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were.

A priest is a functionary of a social sort. The society worships certain deities in a certain way, and the priest becomes ordained as a functionary to carry out that ritual. The deity to whom he is...

Hence a certain tension between religion and society marks the higher stages of every civilization. Religion begins by offering magical aid to harassed and bewildered men

Gospel of miracles is bringing about corruption in our country.

My gods dwell in temples made with hands.

O Christmas Sun! What holy task is thine! To fold a world in the embrace of God!

Theology is not solely a private pursuit for theologians or professors. Throughout history, many pastors have possessed a deeper understanding of theology than average academics. Moreover, theology is...

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the...

I'm a strong opponent of all religious belief... .And supposedly 95% of Americans say they believe in God - that's worrying... .Religions are Trojan horses which conceal profoundly strange psychopathy...

I accepted that the Bible was inspired. Without that one piece, you might as well be in a library looking for answers

Christmas is holy celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.

When we are called before God and His throne of judgment, it will be too late to reverse our decision. It is during our lifetime here on earth that we decide our eternal destiny.

The closer the people of all races get to Christ and His cross, the closer they will get to one another.

If Jesus had not risen from the dead, no right-minded person would have glorified anything so hideous and repulsive as a cross stained with the blood of Jesus . . . An unopened grave would never have...