It is good to be born in a church, but it is bad to die there. It is good to be born a child, but bad to remain a child. Churches, ceremonies, symbols are good for children; but when the child is grown up, he must burst, either the church or himself. . . . The end of all religion is the realization of God. —Vivekananda More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Dogma can in no way limit a limitless God. —Flannery O'Connor More about this quote Tags: God religion dogma belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is religion? That which is never spoken. —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Tags: spirituality religion speech Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If the question could be put to a popular vote, I do not believe a single state would vote for the coming of Jesus to reign here as he reigns in heaven. I do not believe a single county, city, ward in this city, or a single precinct in this country would vote for his coming. . . . The Republican party would vote for the biggest blackguard on earth rather than for him. The Democrats would vote solidly against him. Even the Prohibitionists wouldn't want him here. I see some of you shaking your heads. Well, shake 'em. I'm talking facts. —Dwight L. Moody More about this quote Tags: politics democracy Jesus heaven Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. —Lady Mary Worley Montagu More about this quote Tags: religion enemies world comfort Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How else but through a broken heart may Christ enter in? —Oscar Wilde More about this quote Tags: religion heart Christ broken heart Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand. —C. S. Lewis, after the death of his wife More about this quote Tags: truth religion duty consolation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: God church Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Truth can be found everywhere, even on the lips of drunkards, in the noisiest of taverns. —Elie Wiesel More about this quote Tags: truth alcohol drinking drunkards taverns Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do. —Leonard Cohen More about this quote Tags: truth belief Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller More about this quote Tags: purpose happiness fidelity gratification Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I am, and always have been, a revolutionary writer, because our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality is an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes, our power wielded by cowards and weaklings, and our honor false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons. —George Bernard Shaw More about this quote Tags: power wisdom freedom writing law cowardice morality laws revolution honor order property Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Don't let them tame you! —Isadora Duncan More about this quote Tags: control timidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think the greatest legacy of the 1960s was the general feeling that not only can you fight the powers that be, but you can win. —Abbie Hoffman More about this quote Tags: politics power power winning control victory Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I'm not the heroic type. I was beaten up by Quakers. —Woody Allen More about this quote Tags: heroism violence irony heroes Quakers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email