Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

I go to church too, y'all. And I've heard it, too. And I want to say to all of our faith leaders out there that I understand that probably in my Baptist church in Maryland, it is not likely that there will be performed - in my church - gay marriages.

You're always going to have extremists in every religion.

The Bible is the inerrant ... word of the living God. It is absolutely infallible, without error in all matters pertaining to faith and practice, as well as in areas such as geography, science, history, etc.

The only way you can separate yourself from the [Roman Catholic] church is by knowingly and deliberately denying a dogma of faith. Abortion is not a dogma.

… tolerance is essential to protect one's own religion and one's own deeply held religious beliefs from external manipulation or efforts to overcome them, perhaps from other religions that are pushing in the opposite direction. That is the basic reason for religious tolerance.

… what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

A scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

In every religion, you find the same extremists.

Even as a tree has a single trunk, but many branches and leaves, there is one religion but any number of faiths.

What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.

Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion.

Kind of the bottom line for me, I don't think people come to the church where I preach to hear my view on politics.

The Christian religion and National Socialist doctrines are not compatible.

If a religious person says "No, no, no" and they won't listen to science, it makes me think that they don't have faith in their own religion.

You will find God in the church of your choice.

The three religions because I wanted to discuss faith, not organized religion, so wanted to relativize organized religion by having Pi practice three. I would have like PI to be a Jew, too, to practice Judaism, but there are two religions that are explicitly incompatible: Christianity and Judaism. Where one begins, the other ends, according to Christians, and where one endures, the other strays, according to Jews.

I see no clear reason why the doctrine of self-interest properly understood should turn men away from religious beliefs.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

You don't need to apologize for an opinion, but in terms of respect for the church and people's faith lives, Hillary Clinton has that respect, because it's what motivates her.

He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.