the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

Belief in God is an act of faith. But so is believing our existence is simply the result of chance.

Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Religion is the most fragile of all freedoms. And that's because it is the most threatening to those in power.

True faith is not a leap into the dark; it's a leap into the light

Ideas have far-reaching consequences, and one must be ever so careful about what one allows to lodge in one's brain.

Jesus was and is the enemy of dead religion.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

He did not hope that God heard his prayers; he knew it.

Perfection exists no where, because we all live in fragments - mental, psychological, physical, spiritual. Being total is an art which takes many lives to master!

They are moved less by the direct presence of their gods than by the more indirect feeling that they would somehow like their gods to be present.

Not sure of my place in the world (still up for debate) and not sure what I wanted to do with my life (not really up for debate).

I don't listen to what people say, people been talking about me since I was born.

I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.

I ask especially that no state shall, by law or otherwise, authorize the return of the saloon, either in its old form or in some modern guise.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power.

You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public.

I will do what it takes to help Ed Miliband win general election.