Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Without God and religion you don't have moral truth, you have moral opinion

It's not your body, it's not your choice, because you got that from God. He gave that to you.

Yes, I'm religious. God has shown me things, made certain ways clear to me.

You can't divorce religious belief and public service I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

This is the law of God by which He makes His way known to man and is paramount to all human control.

Let us realize the state we are in. Let us learn what needs to be learnt. Religion and God demand it.

Capital Punishment is a non-diminishable command of God. No pope has the authority to go against God's stated will.

The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving.

I believe in God, and I certainly believe in the devil. There's certainly a devil, and he knows my name.

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

What else should we do with the Word of God but obey?

I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thing about religion? They had made it perfectly legal to own human slaves, and weren't going to led women vote or hold public office, God forbid, for another eighty year.

I believe God always listens to our prayers.

Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.

your faith and hope are in god.

Only if God tells me to come back. No other way.

Truth is the edict of God.

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.

... since God commanded me to go, I must do it.

All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

The Koran calls for belief and consequent obedience. It is, surely, calculated to inspire fear, indeed abject terror, rather than love.

What's up is faith, what's down is heresy.

A belief in God is fundamental; upon it rest the influences that control life.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.