religion

"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other"

"It is my conviction that the fundamental trouble with the people of the United States is that they have gotten too far away from Almighty God."

"I tell you, my friends, it's a sin to pray for the USA. And nobody that's intelligent, and that fears God, will fly the American flag any way but upside-down, the international signal of distress... I…"

"If I were a man, I would strenuously object to the assumption that women have any moral or spiritual superiority as a class. This is female chauvinism."

"God prior to this time, had given revelation to this youth, on many occasions. The first one that he gave to him was in the spring of 1820, before Joseph Smith was of the age of fifteen. Then a wonder…"

"Industrialization came to England but has since left."

"A married man seeks to please his wife and not God."

"However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made u…"

"they indicate the saddest spiritual paralysis, and mere death-life of the souls of men: more godless theory, I think, was never promulgated in this Earth. A false man found a religion? Why, a false ma…"

"Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer."

"I could find only three kinds of business in the world—mine, yours, and God’s. Whose business are you in?"

"Allah has blessed us. He has destroyed twenty-two of our enemies."

"The purpose underlying the revelation of every heavenly Book, nay, of every divinely-revealed verse, is to endue all men with righteousness and understanding, so that peace and tranquillity may be fir…"

"Why pray to a god who would rather speak through say, a stone? Too bad that God made so many people who are interested in music and so few stones who are."

"What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good o…"

"You say you're a Christian, cause God made you, you say you're a Muslim cause God made you, you say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!"

"But what a voice! It was like the voice of a soul that had once lived in an Aeolian harp."

"You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

"Nothing can be greater than love. God is great only because He has infinite Love. If we want to define God, we can define Him in millions of ways, but I wish to say that no definition of God can be as…"

"Before bringing a request to the Lord, it's a good idea to ask: If God granted this request, would it bring glory to him? Would it advance his kingdom? Would it help people? Would it help me to grow s…"