Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

Even though I don't personally believe in the Lord, I try to behave as though He was watching.

I do not know whether there are gods, but there ought to be.

If God existed, and if He cared for humankind, He would never have given us religion.

Well, I'll put it this way: you can certainly say belief in God makes people behave worse. That can be proved beyond a doubt.

This is the first indication I have ever had that there is a God.

Scrutamini scripturas [Latin for “Let us look at the scriptures.”). These two words have undone the world.

If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other part of our lives, including our political views.

Many British people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit a great deal from the guidance they offer.

I still think that God means everything to everyone, whether they understand it or not or can see for themselves.

The mere acknowledgment that 'God is watching' can act as a trap, fueling bad behavior, corruption, and guilt, all remedied by God's forgiveness. No personal responsibility is needed - someone on the outside sees whatever we're doing and makes it all OK.

It is interesting to ask whether there's any general reason why being religious might make you do nice things or indeed nasty things. It's possible that people do nice things because they're religious. One reason might be they're hoping for a reward in Heaven, which is not a very noble reason.

My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God.

I always think about what would Christ do in any circumstances.

You can believe in God without believing in immortality, but it is hard to see how anyone can believe in immortality and not believe in God.

At the risk of appearing predictable, the Bible was and remains the biggest influence on my thinking. I was raised reading it, memorizing passages from it and being guided by it. I still find it a source of wisdom, comfort and encouragement.

Wherever God's word is circulated, it stirs the hearts of the people, it prepares for public morals. Circulate that word, and you find the tone of morals immediately changed. It is God peaking to man.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

Morality is the fruit of religion: to desire the former without the latter is to desire an orange without an orange-tree.

May God grant us the wisdom to discover right, the will to choose it, and the strength to make it endure.

I want God’s Word to get into our bone marrow and change the way we walk...change what we do...change how we think.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

I owe a great deal to the church for everything in which I believe. I am very glad that I was brought up strictly. I was a very serious child. There was not a lot of fun and sparkle in my life.

The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see.

In fact, because people are religious, they think they can do bad things.

One more idea which may be laughed and sneered at in some supposedly sophisticated circles, but I just have to believe that the loving God who has blessed this land and thus made us a good and caring people should never have been expelled from America's classrooms. It's time to welcome Him back, because whenever we've opened ourselves and trusted in Him, we've gained not only moral courage but intellectual strength.