Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.
I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.
If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.
When it gets a little hard to care, just think about Him hanging there.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The revival in religion will be a rhetorical problem - new persuasive words for defaced or degraded ones.
The beginning of religion, more precisely its content, is the concept of religion itself, that God is the absolute truth, the truth of all things, and subjectively that religion alone is the absolutely true knoweldge.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.
That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?
Surfing is my religion, if I have one.
The good is where American dream is alive and kicking. You can be any race, religion, color, creed, sexual orientation - it doesn't matter who you are or where you're from. If you have a talent and you have a passion and you're prepared to work hard, you can be anything you want to be. That's what I like about being in America.
Instead of more violence why isn't there a meeting of religious leaders. It's all got to be dialogue - that's the only way. Get everybody from each religion together and say 'Listen, this can't go on. Why do we have all this hatred?'
We are all called to fulfill God's five purposes for our lives: to worship, to fellowship, to grow like Christ, to serve, and to be on mission with God in the world.