religion

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

"God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!"

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities."

"'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts."..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her..."

"salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb."

"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."

"I had retained little of what is generally called religion, except for a visceral conviction that our lives are controlled by some universal mechanism that is greater than ourselves. Perhaps that was what others called God. Perhaps not."

"Some folks are happier not being saved."

"We do not accept a religion because it offers us certain rewards. The only thing that a religion can offer us is to be just what it, in itself, is: a greater meaning in ourselves, in our lives, and in our grasp of the nature of things...a religion exists for us only if, like a piece of poetry, it carries us away. It is not in any sense a 'hypothesis."

"To regret religion is to regret Western civilization."

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not."

"If there's only one nation in the sky, shouldn't all passports be valid for it?"

"ugd بگذار هرکجا تنفراست بذرعشق بکارم هرکجا آزادگی هست ببخشایم وهر کجا غم هست شادی نثار کنم الهی توفیقم ده که بیش ازطلب همدلی همدلی کنم بیش از آنکه دوستم بدارند دوست بدارم زیرا در عطا کردن است که ستوده می شویم و در بخشیدن است که بخشیده می شویم"

"To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell."

"I'm Catholic. I don't pray, I just ask for forgiveness after."

"در غم ما روزها بی گاه شدروزها با سوزها همراه شد"

"My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."

"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."

"If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience."

"Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print."