Religion is not just incongruent with morality, but in essential ways incompatible with it.
It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
[T]he great American statesman devotes his energy, ability, and wisdom to conforming himself and this people to the moral principles that gave this nation birth, are older than anything else in the country's soul, and yet retain the power to make us young again with the vigor of virtue and the zeal for justice.
It is the absence of bars that makes a beast free - but only the truth can make a man free.
Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty
The gospel of licentiousness, of selfishness, of blaming all the difficulties of life on external factors - these are the things that are killing people today in ways that the slave whips and the overseers couldn't.
There was a time when most Americans held to the notion that the only sure and secure foundation for freedom was God - the Source of unalienable rights and the Policeman stationed in every human heart. . . But apparently, we don't believe in that sort of thing anymore.
I do give a great deal of forethought and zone in on character and all sorts of things like that. Never before have I just stuffed something away in the back cupboard of my brain because it was just such a crazy concept.
Religion is the fruit of the Spirit, a Christian character, a true life.
Everybody has something to prove each year. Everybody has a responsibility in this game. Even the batboy.
If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.