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
Cruelty is seldom forgotten. You feel it as a child. Somebody takes away your toy or thoughtlessly kicks over your sand castle. A beautiful boy walks into your life, sees something he doesn't like or doesn't understand, and painstakingly endeavors to make you feel how much he hates you, to be constantly aware of the flaws that provoke that hatred. And then you grow older and wiser, but you don't forget the cruelty. You can't forget it, because there is nothing stronger, nothing more palpable in the human brain than the memory of mistreatment. —L.H. Cosway in The Nature of Cruelty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I still got that same little jump in my gut at the sight of him. Like over all those years he'd worn a groove in my heart so deep it would always be there. —Sarah Dessen in The Moon & More More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Sometimes the worst thing that happens to you, the thing you think you can't survive…it's the thing that makes you better than you used to be. —Jennifer Weiner in Fly Away Home More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I thought maybe if I met someone else that I'd be able to stop thinking about you, but it didn't work. Nothing works. When I'm with them, I wish it was you. When they laugh or talk, I can't help but compare them to your voice or your laugh. It's always been you; it'll always be you. —Kirsty Moseley in The Boy Who Sneaks in My Bedroom Window More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. —Pablo Neruda More about this quote Tags: change growth inevitability spring flowers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email