religion

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?"Priest: "No, not if you did not know."Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?"

"A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"I like a cook who smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your enthusiasm."

"Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."

"Myth is what we call other people's religion."

"And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?"

"I could never work out whether we were to view religion as a life-insurance policy or a life sentence. I can understand a wrathful God who'd just as soon dangle us all from a hook. And I can understand a tender, unprejudiced Jesus. But I could never quite feature the two of them living in the same house. You wind up walking on eggshells, never knowing which... is at home at the moment."

"Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"

"When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons."

"You can never talk religion on network TV. It makes too many people angry. You can talk about sex."

"There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages."

"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."

"The only interesting thing about religion is how many people it's slaughtered. Communism and Nazism are religions as well, make no mistake about it."

"He has done things that caused me to doubt His wisdom, but never His existence."

"Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And it will cost you more than you intended to pay"

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"Guys like him, the ones who grip the Bible so tight they leave fingernail grooves, they're the ones who are the most scared of their dark side. Always going too far the other way, fighting for the Lord, often just because it gives them an excuse to fight."

"If complete and utter chaos was lightning, then he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards!"

"Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes."