Paul McCartney Quotes

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

I even agree that the concept of god helps some people lead better lives. That does happen. Don't ever forget it. I just think there are better ways to help people lead better lives.

God is good, there is no devil but fear.

I've come to learn that theology matters. It matters not because we want to impress people, but because what we know about God shapes the way we think and live. Theology matters because if we get it wrong then our whole life will be wrong.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.

What people don’t realize is how much religion costs. They think faith is a big electric blanket, when of course it is the cross.

I think everybody's looking for religion to believe in. I think we all need faith.

I think it's hard to live without some sort of faith.

If you think about the great religions that have united large parts of humankind, people believe gods are very concrete - there is an angry old man in the sky, and if I do something wrong, he will punish me.

Faith without works is dead.

I just pray to God and make sure I'm good with God.

The Bible is full of wealth, miracles, goodness and badness.

I'm a man of faith.

I've never met a happy atheist.

And remembering how those very beliefs had repelled me and had seemed meaningless when professed by people whose lives conflicted with them, and how these same beliefs attracted me and seemed reasonable when I saw that people lived in accord with them, I understood why I had then rejected those beliefs and found them meaningless, yet now accepted them and found them full of meaning. I understood that I had erred, and why I erred. I had erred not so much because I thought incorrectly, as because I lived badly. I understood that it was not an error in my thought that had hid truth from me, as much as my life itself in the exceptional conditions of epicurean gratification of desires in which I passed it. I understood that my question as to what my life is, and the answer, an evil, was quite correct. The only mistake was that the answer referred only to my life; but I had referred it to life in general. I asked myself what my life is, and got the reply: An evil and an absurdity. And really my life—a life of indulgence of desires—was senseless and evil, and therefore the reply, “Life is evil and an absurdity,” referred only to my life, but not to human life in general.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt.

Religion is bad and drugs are good.

Religion is rather the attempt to express the complete reality of goodness through every aspect of our being.

I think I could make the case for any kind of organized religion, but I'm not an expert in those, so let me narrow my focus to talk about Christianity.

In the ordinary moral universe, the good will do the best they can, the worst will do the worst they can, but if you want to make good people do wicked things, you’ll need religion.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish - if a little more enlightened, religion would perish.

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