James Payn Quotes

God's love is too great to be confined to any one side of a conflict or to any one religion.

I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!

The reality is that art has often risen to greater heights than the people who created it. Many flawed artists have created great works of art. You have to decide if you are going to listen to Richard Wagner's music or not because he was very anti-Semitic.

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

I believe the scripture says that being gay is a sin.

There is nothing at all that God won't forgive.

I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God.

I'm open to all religions. Respecting Scientology is just like respecting any other religious view.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

God's love is so great that He loves even the proud, the selfish, the arrogant, and the wicked.

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?

May the good God pardon all good men.

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.

The problem is huge. We've just added seventy-five million people to the already large proportion of people in the world who are malnourished all the time, whose bodies are being starved.

And yet this same Deity says to me, resist not evil; pray for those that despitefully use you; love your enemies, but I will eternally damn mine. It seems to me that even gods should practice what they preach.

We are eating, using up, and possessing more than we should. That is why a large portion of the human population is hungry.

Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner.

... half the world starves. What a planet. And the eating, if you're lucky enough to do any. Stuffing pieces of dead animals into a hole in your face. Then munch, munch, munch. If there's anybody watching, they must be dying of laughter.

I'm not poor now, but unlike some of my friends who are now rich, I haven't embraced conservatism and religion. I'm not opposed to religion if you keep it out of my life.