Pat Buckley Quotes

Since Christendom comprehends only a small part of the globe, should not everyone who believes in God be saved by his own religion?

Religion is the best business. It does have many of the same problems as other business. It has to market, manage, account for and handle money, but it has one profound advantage. Religion does not have to deliver in this life.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

I believe that my own Christian faith does indeed make universal claims.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.

Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

Religion in its humility restores man to his only dignity, the courage to live by grace.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

That which we call the Hindu religion is really the Eternal religion because it embraces all others.

God loves us all, wants us all to share his kingdom, has a role for us all.

At the core of my dad is, he has a very strong faith. He believes very firmly in loving God.

I believe in having a more open mind and including others who don't share your faith and having dialogue with them. And just having a pure heart and being a good person can bring you closer to God. Because once you believe in one particular religion fully and not others, that requires you to start disliking people who don't share your views.

While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

My frustration has always been that I'm a Christian, but I don't buy into, never have bought into, the belief that Jesus and God are these men who just dictate that this is how you have to live your life or you are going to burn in hell.

God's good. He can just pull a life out of a pit, can't He?

Religion as a human phenomenon is as riddled through with potential for both good and evil as any other phenomenon.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

Why do people get upset when Christians say there is only one way to Heaven? Shouldn't those who follow a particular religion believe its doctrine to be true?

I think I'm a very religious person. I think I believe in God as much as any man does. I don't only believe in God, I know there's God.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I believe every religion captures a piece of the truth.

When I hear Mitt Romney say that he believes that Jesus is the Son of God, that He's the Christ, raised from the dead, that He's his savior - that's good enough for me.

Religiously the Empire was pluralistic and marked by a search for a faith which would be satisfying intellectually and ethically and would give assurance of immortality.