842 quotes found
“Like those in the valley behind us, most people stand in sight of the spiritual mountains all their lives and never enter them, being content to listen to others who have been there and thus avoid ...”
“The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?”
“Every aspect of Nature reveals a deep mystery and touches our sense of wonder and awe. Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos...”
“Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.”
“Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.”
“You believe in God?" demanded Billy Karma."I believe in thirty-seven separate and distinct gods," answered Argyle proudly. "That puts me thirty-six ahead of you.""It makes you a pagan.""It makes yo...”
“So what is the difference between someone who willfully indulges in sexual pleasures while ignoring the Bible on moral purity and someone who willfully indulges in the selfish pursuit of more and m...”
“I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can unders...”
“I believe in those whom I love and trust. All else is foolishness. This god is as empty as his church. His followers choose to attribute all of their good fortune to him, but when he ignores their ...”
“You say that you people dont burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but thats what true faith would mean, ysee? Sacrificin your own life, one day at a time, to the flame, declarin the truth of it,...”
“religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a ...”
“A wise man once told me- hes a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than he does a fanatic of his own religion. He has more in common with a rational, reasonable-minded Christia...”
“We are not evil. We don't harm or seduce people. We are not dangerous. We are ordinary people like you. We have families, jobs, hopes, and dreams. We are not a cult. This religion is not a joke. We...”
“Whats the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you dont change whats on the inside,were it really counts ?”
“To be a Christian is to live dangerously, honestly, freely - to step in the name of love as if you may land on nothing, yet to keep on stepping because the something that sustains you no empire can...”
“Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”
“For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours.”
“It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing ...”
“You don't know me; you never knew my heart. No man knows my history. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. I don't blame any one for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what ...”
“The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.”
