Roy Moore Quotes

I contend that true Socialism is religion; that honest, fervent politics are religion; that whatever a man will labour for earnestly and in some measure unselfishly is religion

Belief in God is an elementary form of selflessness - the acknowledgement of responsibility toward a hypothetical 'Other'.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

There has to be some kind of order and some moral code. I don't know how people can function without a belief in a deity.

I just believe if you don't believe in God, then where is your moral barometer? That's just me talking. You can believe what you want to believe.

My ultimate goal is to become a saint.

I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Selfishness is the only real atheism; aspiration, unselfishness, the only real religion.

Men say that I am a saint losing myself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to be a saint.

Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

If I get to the end of my life, if I die, and I find out religion is one big lie, I still won't regret it because it's helped me to live a better life, to be a better person, to care about people, to believe in forgiveness, to believe in hope.

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

There are some great values in Christianity, but I think the values are located more deeply in our humanity than they are in our religion. There are certainly some survival values.

Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.

Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less.

What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.

We shall not long have love to man if we do not first and chiefly cultivate love to God.

[Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin.

Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be known through charity.