America is an unusually religious nation.

The success of the West, including the rise of science, rested entirely on religious foundations, and the people who brought it about were devout Christians.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

Not only were science and religion compatible, they were inseparable--th e rise of science was achieved by deeply religious Christian scholars.

Many people who say they have no religion are simply saying they have no official religious affiliation. They may actually have strong personal beliefs.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

People value religion on the basis of cost, and they don't value the cheapest ones the most. Religions that ask nothing get nothing.

It has been said of many modern Christian theologians that their primary aim is to find ways to express disbelief as belief.

It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men.

No other single innovation had so much impact on history.

The overwhelming majority of social scientists were irreligious or even anti-religious. This led them to believe that religion was a disappearing and unimportant factor in human affairs.

There is nothing in the world so enticing as that which you have been told you may not have.

Do me a favor, okay? Tell my parents that I fought well today. And tell them that I... that I... that I fought hard.

Gentle persuasion succeeds where force fails.

Good or evil-you cannot build your life apart from this distinction.

I like playing against LeBron more than anybody else in the league. He brings out the best in me, and I bring out the best in him.

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday. They insist on bringing into today the failures of yesterday and in so doing, they pollute a potentially wonderful day.

If one isn't parsimonious before Christmas one can't be munificent when it arrives.

When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.

I believe there are unidentified flying objects, I'm just not sure who's driving.

I know everything that has happened to everybody in the past, everything that is happening now and everything that will happen in the future.