Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

If God thinks proportionality is fair who are we to say that it is unfair?

In the end, religion teaches us to value truth, justice and freedom.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule.

If you ain't thinkin' about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin' about nothin'.

Authentic religion does not require politicians

Islam embraces the whole of life and does not distinguish between the sacred and the secular, it concerns itself with force and power which characterize this world as such.

There's been so much rhetoric in the past decade about how important religion is to being a good person, for people to say they don't believe in God.

The secular law has as its task not to turn the world lying in evil into the Kingdom of God, but to prevent it from turning into hell.

Muslims are bound to know all the tenets of their religion, to discuss them and to regulate their lives accordingly. Therefore, a purely secular education without religious instructions would be like a body without soul.

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

It may be that religion is dead, and if it is, we had better know it and set ourselves to try to discover other sources of moral strength before it is too late.

A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.

I think the great thing about religion is it's there to teach us the good path and that we're all equal, that we should be treated as such.

The individual makes a clear effort to define moral values and principles that have validity and application apart from the authority of the groups of persons holding them and apart from the individual's own identification with the group.

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

O God and Lord, now the council condemns even Your own act and Your own law as heresy, since You Yourself did lay Your cause before Your Father as the just judge, as an example for us, whenever we are sorely oppressed.

And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the Constitution, upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of all mankind, and the gracious favor of Almighty God.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

God knows, we don't want prayer.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Man doesn't dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That's where my faith lies.

Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts.

He who obeys God's laws finds him a father. He who disobeys them, finds him a judge.