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I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it?

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.

You know, this is a war of ideology, a war of thoughts and of faith. And we need people to really stand for faith and trust, not hope and change.

Given the fact that most religions share basic values, it is most unfortunate that religious people can be played off against each other so easily. One possible reason for this may be that people do not know enough about other people's beliefs.