Gordon B. Hinckley Quotes

The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.

To speak against religion (the Christian) is breaking down the bond of good government.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

Every Latter-day Saint should love the inspired Constitution of the United States - a nation with a spiritual foundation and a prophetic history - which nation the Lord has declared to be his base of operations in these latter days.

Growing up in Britain as a rather loose Jew, the two things that didn't belong together were freedom and religious intensity. In America, they do. The Founding Fathers made a bet that if you didn't force everyone to profess religion in their own particular way, you could protect intellectual freedom, and religion would flourish.

Freedom of religion, as the Founding Fathers saw it, was not just the right to associate oneself with a certain denomination but the right to disassociate without penalty.

Religious liberty is primarily a man's liberty to profess a faith different from that of the dominant religion, and to unite in public worship with those who share his faith.

It is certainly no part of religion to compel religion.

The passage of the 1st Amendment is the single most dramatic and significant turning point of a revolutionary transition to religious freedom.

Nothing is more important to me, and nothing was more important to our founding fathers, than freedom of religion.

We must never forget that this coutry was founded by men who came to these shores to worship God as they pleased. Catholics, Jews, and Protestants, all came here for this great purpose. They did not come here to do as they pleased - but to worship God as they pleased, and that is an important distinction.

The great thing about America is you can live according to your faith. If you're faith says don't use birth control then you don't use it.

We can be deeply thankful that we live in a land where reason and religion are friends and allies in the cause of liberty, joined against the evils and dangers of the day. And you can be certain of this: Any believer in religious freedom, any person who has knelt in prayer to the Almighty, has a friend and ally in me. And so it is for hundreds of millions of our countrymen: we do not insist on a single strain of religion - rather, we welcome our nation's symphony of faith.

Religious liberty, hey, it's about religious liberty. And there has to be a melding of both. We're living in a time where you have to have a melding of both. But it's very unfair what they're doing to religion in this country.

I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The founding document of the United States of America acknowledges the Lordship of Jesus Christ because we are a Christian nation.

The First Amendment freedom of religion is as important today as when the Bill of Rights was first written.

There are lots of people out there who think they know the truth about God and religion, but does anybody really know for sure? That's why the founding fathers built freedom of religious belief into the structure of this nation, so that everybody could make up their minds for themselves.

I believe in the Constitution. The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.

We Americans unite faith and freedom in asserting that our liberties are your gift, God, not that of government.

As crucial as religion has been and is to the life of the nation, America's unifying force has never been a specific faith, but a commitment to freedom - not least freedom of conscience.

I am known for a life spent in the struggle for freedom, and freedom includes the freedom of religion.