All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself, and never mind the rest. —Beatrix Potter More about this quote Tags: religion work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I believe in the incomprehensibility of God. —Honoré de Balzac More about this quote Tags: understanding God incomprehensibility Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne. —Kurt Vonnegut More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. —Peter De Vries More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
There are many, many gates to the sacred, and they are as wide as we need them to be. —Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated. —Voltaire More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I was walking across a bridge one day, and I saw a man standing on the edge, about to jump off. So I ran over and said, "Stop! Don't do it! . . . There's so much to live for!" He said, "Like what?" I said, "Well, are you religious or atheist?" He said, "Religious." I said, "Me too! Are you Christian or Buddhist?" He said, "Christian." I said, "Me too! Are you Catholic or Protestant?" He said, "Protestant." I said, "Me too! Are you Episcopalian or Baptist?" He said, "Baptist!" I said, "Wow! Me too! Are you Baptist Church of God or Baptist Church of the Lord?" He said, "Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you original Baptist Church of God, or Reformed Baptist Church of God?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God!" I said, "Me too! Are you Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1879, or Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915?" He said, "Reformed Baptist Church of God, reformation of 1915!" I said, "Die, heretic scum," and pushed him off. —Emo Philips More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: religion morality fighting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Man is kind enough when he's not excited by religion, but once the holy holies have got a grip on him he's capable of almost anything. When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew, or Muslim. If he's made up his mind that you need reforming, he will do it with anything handy — an ax, eight hundred years of witch burning or, if necessary, he'll blow you up. —Mark Twain More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. —Jonathan Swift More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Father Michaellod was horrified to find his New Guinea native parishioners all preferred hell to heaven. It took him some time to find out why. On the mission picture, hell was depicted as a place of eternal fire, peopled by dark-skinned beings with spearlike pitchforks. Heaven, on the other hand, was depicted as a place of cloud and mist, among which many white people stood, pale and menacing. —Tim Flannery More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them. —Dave Barry More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not intolerant. I just know what it says in the Scriptures. —Jesse Helms More about this quote Tags: Christianity the bible intolerant Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak. —George Santayana More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don't point out that people are different. —Colin Quinn More about this quote Tags: wisdom difference diversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email