Bill Hicks Quotes

My mother was a not-too-devoted atheist. She went to Episcopal church on Christmas Eve every year, and that was mostly it.

I was raised Jewish. I didn't know anything about Christianity.

I went to church every Sunday...I understood Christmas and what Easter was about. I understood the persecution of Christ, the crucifixion of Christ, the Resurrection of Christ. I understood all that but I have to say that beyond that...for me, my knowledge after that was quite vague.

The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.

The greatest enemy to the movement of Jesus Christ is Christianity.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

What we think of Christ influences our thinking and controls our actions.

I don’t want to slam somebody else’s religion. I mean as a Catholic, we’re basically cannibals: We eat Jesus every Sunday, you know? So who am I to say your religion is creepy?

I'm an actress and a singer and I'm also a Christian. We're not all crazy right-wingers. I just want to be like Jesus, forgiving and loving and nonjudgmental, accepting of everyone even if they don't agree.

Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them.

What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done.

Anyone who believes in a Jesus who condones abortion does not believe in the real Jesus, and therefore is not Christian.

I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

I like Easter. But let's remember that Christ's resurrection is not truer at Easter than at any other time of the year.

Now, I believe that one of the reasons that Jesus was accused of being a homosexual is because he spent time with homosexuals. I've often had people ask me, would you allow a homosexual to be your friend. Yes, I will. And the reason I will is because I know that that person has problems, and if I can minister to those problems, I will.

One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

What has religion to do with facts? Nothing.

I do believe that the Kingdom of God is present wherever Jesus is king. That's my definition of the Kingdom of God.

You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?

But Jesus and Christianity have a tenuous relationship at best.

Take Jesus for your king, and by baptism swear allegiance to him; take him for your prophet, and hear him; take him for your priest, to make atonement for you.

Happy Easter everyone! Jesus dies, comes back from the dead - and we get chocolate eggs. It's like turn-down service from God.

When you look at belief in such things - as do you go to heaven, is there a devil - we have more in common with (Muslin countries) Turkey and Iran and Syria than we do with European nations and Canada and nations that, yes, I would consider more enlightened that us.

A healthy man, with steady employment, as wood-chopping at fifty cents a cord, and a camp in the woods, will not be a good subjectfor Christianity. The New Testament may be a choice book to him on some, but not on all or most of his days. He will rather go a-fishing in his leisure hours. The Apostles, though they were fishers too, were of the solemn race of sea-fishers, and never trolled for pickerel on inland streams.