Nick Saban Quotes

How wise are Thy commandments O Lord. Each one of them applies to somebody or other I know.

The Bible's been attacked. What is truth? It's relative.

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.

Christianity has kept itself going for centuries on hope alone, and has perpetrated all manner of naughtiness in the meantime.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.

I've always felt that, you know, the Almighty has a lot of things to do other than help my basketball team.

An Indiana Member of Congress says, "A Sunday in San Francisco will convince any one that at least two thirds of the population are composed of heathens and infidels".... But does the Indiana mind suppose that we came all the way to the Pacific to acquire faith and practice virtue? We could have done that sort of stupid business at home.

Do not listen to the Jesus missionaries! Look among yourselves for witches, and note who they are, and they will be judged soon. How will you know witches? I will tell you: They will be doing commerce with Americans, and going to their treaty councils, against the warnings of Our Creator

Those damn preachers got the idea that it was a moral issue

Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

The Catholic Church, though I think it's important that people grow up with moral values, I just always disagreed with their tactics, which I thought were fright tactics, as opposed to sitting down and explaining the situation.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.

It's funny - people think analysis or psychiatry is mad, and THEY go to CHURCH.

They were Jesuits," she told me. "That means they believe in God but not in terlet paper. You should have seen their underwear. Disgusting.

My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

I don't play golf. Mark Twain is golf to me.

Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

A sign in the yard of a church next door said CHRIST IS THE ANSWER. (The question, of course, is: What do you say when you strike your thumb with a hammer?)

The High Septon once told me that as we sin, so do we suffer.

Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.

Live life without being afraid of judgment from others because judgment from other sinners is invalid.