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

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.

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.

America is an unusually religious nation.

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.

When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

It's goodbye to some things. And hello to others.

A writer needs four things to achieve greatness, Pasquale: desire, disappointment, and the sea.” “That’s only three.” Alvis finished his wine. “You have to do disappointment twice.

Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.

You cannot run a successful retail business from memory.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

The person who proclaimed me Best Dressed Man never saw me in my sport outfit.

It was marrying that made women appreciate other women.