religion

"It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies."

"Once you have surrendered yourself, you make yourself receptive. In receiving from God, you are perfected and completed."

"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."

"There are many sources of spirituality; religion may be the most common, but it is by no means the only. Anything that generates a sense of awe may be a source of spirituality. Science does this in spades."

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

"A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity."

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

"Religion isn't the opium of the people, it's the hypocrisy."

"I am only responsible for my own heart, you offered yours up for the smashing my darling. Only a fool would give out such a vital organ"

"You don't get to advertise all the good that your religion does without first scrupulously subtracting all the harm it does and considering seriously the question of whether some other religion, or no religion at all, does better."

"Forbidden to remember, terrified to forget; it was a hard line to walk."

"As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."

"those who have loved are those that have found God"

"If I could, Sister James, I would certainly choose to live in innocence. But innocence can only be wisdom in a world without evil. Situations arise and we are confronted with wrongdoing and the need to act."

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

"The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts."

"In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart."

"I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words,"muttered Magnus."

"For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club."

"Atheism is more than just the knowledge that gods do not exist, and that religion is either a mistake or a fraud. Atheism is an attitude, a frame of mind that looks at the world objectively, fearlessly, always trying to understand all things as a part of nature."