religion

"Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God."

"All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality."

"If a believer demands that I, as a nonbeliever, observe his taboos in the public domain, he is not asking for my respect, but for my submission."

"God rewards those who seek Him. Not those who seek doctrine of religion or systems or creeds. Many settle for these lesser passions, but the reward goes to those who settle for nothing less than Jesus himself. And what is the reward? What awaits those who seek Jesus? Nothing short of the heart of Jesus."

"Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He try to make you think he everywhere. Soon as you think he everywhere, you think he God. But he ain't. Whenever you trying to pray, and man plop himself on the other end of it, tell him to git lost, say Shug. Conjure up the flowers, wind, water, a big rock."

"They say religion is about love, but you wonder how much of it really is about fear."

"We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation."

"There is no limit to the amount of intelligence invested in ignorance when the need for illusion runs deep."

"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."

"Do you believe in God, doctor?"No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

"I am a religious person, although I am not a believer."

"To me, religion is about our dignity, not our depravity."

"Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?"

"Come Judgment Day, we may find that Mumbo Jumbo the God of the Congo was the Big Boss all along."

"As a child abuse and neglect therapist I do battle daily with Christians enamored of the Old Testament phrase "Spare the rod and spoil the child."No matter how far I stretch my imagination, it does not stretch far enough to include the image of a cool dude like Jesus taking a rod to a kid."

"Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor."

"Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith."

"Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."