I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.

There is a higher power, a higher influence, a God who rules and reigns and controls circumstances and situations that are beyond your area and realm of authority.

Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

Jesus Christ said 'by their fruits ye shall know them,' not by their disclaimers.

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.

With respect to my religious sentiments, I have the firmest assurance and tranquillity. I have faithfully endeavoured to improve the faculties and opportunities God has given me, and I am perfectly easy about the consequences.

It’s like wearing your cock ring to meet the pope, and making sure he sees it.

Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

[W]orship, if not the child, is at least the brother, of fear.

In some way the god had to be appeased and satisfied; for his worshipers had made him in the image and dream of themselves, and he had no great regard for human life, or womanly tears.

The form of Christianity that developed in Europe and later spread to America and the rest of the world was the last great creation of the ancient pagan world.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

My family is Jewish, Buddhist, Baptist and Catholic. I don't believe in man-made religions.

It bums me out tremendously what the church has become, and if it's got me bummed, imagine what Jesus Christ must be feeling.

Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

I am a glorious child of God. I am joyful, serene, positive, and loving.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

“But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”

“The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other; and with them this conviction does not spring from that barren traditionary faith which seems to vegetate in the soul rather than to live.”

“I am unaware of his plans but I shall never stop believing in them because I cannot fathom them and I prefer to mistrust my own intellectual capacities than his justice.”

“If these town gods can't detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's hardly likely they'll tell me who stole my spade.”

“Religionizing" only one part of life secularizes the rest of it.”

“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is to say, those who have private, personal, transcendent, core-religious experiences easily and often and who accept them and make use of them, and, on the other hand, those who have never had them or who repress or suppress them and who, therefore, cannot make use of them for their personal therapy, personal growth, or personal fulfillment.”