Bill Bennett Quotes

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

Any simple claim that you need religion to be good is flat wrong.

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.

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.

Many good people practice no faith at all.

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

An honest man's the noblest work of God.

No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

If you look within the United States, religion seems to make you a better person. Yet atheist societies do very well - better, in many ways, than devout ones.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it's perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

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.

I think I like big issues, but I don't believe in God or religion.

A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Humanists are not characteristically strong in faith, hope and love.

Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

I doubt that anyone does not really believe in God. People may think they don't have any belief, but you will usually find that there is a belief in something beyond himself. In any case, I would not judge a man's character by his belief or unbelief. I would judge his character by his deeds; and no matter what he said about his beliefs, his behavior would soon show whether he was a man of good character or bad.