It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more noble than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. —David Ormsby-Gore More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Suppose some mathematical creature from the moon were to reckon up the human body; he would at once see the essential thing about it was that it was duplicate. A man is two men, he on the right exactly resembling him on the left. Having noted that there was an arm on the right and one on the left, a leg on the right and one on the left, he might go further still and find on each side the same number of fingers, the same number of toes, twin eyes, twin ears, twin nostrils, and even twin lobes of the brain. At last he would take it as a law; and then, where he found a heart on one side, would deduce that there was another heart on the other. And just then, where he most felt he was right, he would be wrong. —G. K. Chesterton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do. —Anne Lamott More about this quote Tags: God people hatred self-deception projection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly those beliefs were; they all fused into a single stubbornness. —Louise Erdrich More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Each drew his sword / On the side of the Lord. —Phyllis McGinley More about this quote Tags: war God violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
My Palestinian intellectual friend tells me that he might be willing to admit that God in Hebrew said the Jews could have Israel. But, he said, Allah did not speak it in Arabic to the Arabs. —Arthur Hertzberg More about this quote Tags: God Israel Palestine Judaism Islam Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: religion respect subjectivity relativism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Moral: a peerless maxim enumerated by God in his Holy Bible, such as that of Deut. 23.1: "If your testicles are crushed or your male member missing, you must never enter a sanctuary of the Lord. —Donald Morgan More about this quote Tags: God morality sexuality Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
All religions are the same: religion is basically guilt, with different holidays. —Cathy Ladman More about this quote Tags: humor religion guilt holidays Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow the teachings of the New, he would be insane. —Robert G. Ingersoll More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have died so little today, friend, forgive me. —Thomas Lux More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How did I get so lucky to have my heart awakened to others and their suffering? —Pema Chödrön More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. —Sir Walter Scott More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. —Turkish proverb More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human? —Paulo Freire More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email