Religion Quotes
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity.
But without doubts, without a standpoint reached through questionings, human beings can't acquire knowledge.
the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.
As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.
Were prayers of murderers, when fighting on the “right side” of the war, ever heard—let alone answered?
It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is worth being a bigot about.
Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.
Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
Fanatics can justify practically any atrocity to themselves. The more untenable their position becomes, the harder they hold to it, and the worse the things they are willing to do to support it.
Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.
What's the truth? The truth is what people WANT. Liars are basically idealists, liars are saints and prophets. Jesus was a liar.
You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.
I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.
I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.
The Maker of the universe with stars a hundred thousand light-years apart was interested, furious, and very personal about it if a small boy played baseball on Sunday afternoon.
Common sense is no match for the voice of God.
If I convert it's because it's better that a believer dies than that an atheist does.
You don't have to stop thinking and asking questions to believe in God, child. If He'd wanted a flock of eight billion sheep, He wouldn't have given us opposable thumbs, much less free will.
He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.
Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?
What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, "I Can." You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.
The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.
Growth comes from God, to those with surrendered, yielded hearts.
If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.
Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.
A halo surrounded the grim reaper nun, Sister Maria. (By the way-I like this human idea of the grim reaper. I like the scythe. It amuses me.)
All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.
There was no safety. There was no pride. All there was, was money. Everything became money, and money became everything. Money treated us as if we were things, and we died.
To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune.
It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.
Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these many-coloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another!
God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.
On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed.
Maybe that’s 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.
