Alan Dershowitz Quotes

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Most of us want to have enough... good works to get into heaven, but enough bad works to be fun.

Almost everyone thinks they are a good person, but the question you should be asking is, am I good enough to go to Heaven? How would you know?

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

When holiness is achieved by conforming to God's will, one knows intuitively that which is wrong and that which is right before the Lord. Holiness speaks when there is silence, encouraging that which is good or reproving that which is wrong.

Evil and good are God's right hand and left.

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.

I believe in a packed Heaven and an empty Hell.

God comes first. Paradise is not cheap.

Bad people doing bad things is not interesting. What I find interesting is good people doing bad things.

It is a common assumption that a person's good works will get them into Heaven.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

But if there is a just God, there is ultimate justice.

George Washington understood that the Bible is the place where God's records of right and wrong are kept.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn't concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man's soul.

There are bad people and there are bad corporations. Just as there are good people and good corporations. That might seem too black and white, but what can I tell ya?

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

Without moral progress, stimulated by faith in God, immorality in all its forms will proliferate and strangle goodness and human decency. Mankind will not be able to fully express the potential nobility of the human soul unless faith in God is strengthened.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

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.

If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Whatsoever is good; the same is also approved of God.

You got good and bad people everywhere.