842 quotes found
“One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.”
“Your daily life is your temple and your religion.”
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
“The Savage interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?" "You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You remin...”
“Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”
“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It ...”
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely ...”
“Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though, we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are gratef...”
“There's nothing mysterious about it, He's not working at all. He's playing. Or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about, a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling,...”
“I am a religious person, although I am not a believer.”
“All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.”
“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other peop...”
“Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.”
“Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other peo...”
“The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts.”
“With a truly tragic delusion, Carl Jung noted, these theologians fail to see that it is not a matter of proving the existence of the light, but of blind people who do not know that their eyes could...”
“Religion begins in story. Yes, it does, because religion is an attempt to make sense of what is incomprehensible to us, what is inexplicable, what is awe-inspiring, what is frightening, what moves ...”
“Maybe thats what religion is, hurling yourself off a cliff and trusting that something bigger will take care of you and carry you to the right place.”
“I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion. And this is true to the extent that people either passionately love T...”
