Richard B. Russell Jr. Quotes

Religion is all-too-often a refuge for scoundrels.

It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.

Basic religion is the reason we have morals.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

Moral crusade: Public activity undertaken by middle-aged men who are cheating on their wives or diddling little boys. Moral crusades are particularly popular among those seeking power for their own personal pleasure, politicians who can't think of anything useful to do with their mandates, and religious professionals suffering from a personal inability to communicate with their god.

The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith.

Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing—finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

You should always take what I say about religion with a grain of salt, because the 7 deadly sins are more like my seven daily activities. I try to check them all off at least once a day. All of them except gluttony; my trainer keeps that under control.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

A good man, is a good man, whether in this church, or out of it.

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

I look at the Star of David as a symbol of righteousness.

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient.

Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right thing, and go the right way, things will end up in your corner.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem — for purely religious purposes, of course — to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

Allah hates disbelievers.