religion

"It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."

"We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding."

"My people are going to learn the principles of democracy the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will, every man can follow his own conscience provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him act against the liberty of his fellow men."

"Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light."

"I think you have every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light."

"Woman is the light of God."

"I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All."

"Religion turned some folks belligerent."

"If Christ taught us anything it is this -- not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing."

"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."

"Whoever possesses God in their being has Him in a divine manner, and He shines out to them in all things; for them all things taste of God and in all things it is God's image that they see."

"Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"

"Hindus, in their capacity for love, are indeed hairless Christians, just as Muslims, in the way they see God in everything, are bearded Hindus, and Christians, in their devotion to God, are hat wearing Muslims."

"It ain't that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won't let you drink a little whiskey. Won't let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won't let you do a damn thing except work for what you'll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now."

"On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed."

"The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion."

"Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model."

"بالحُبّ خَلَق، وللحب خَلَق، وللحب يُعذِّب ... تبارك وتعالى في سمواته، الذي خلقنا باسمه الرحمن الرحيم"

"Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else..."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."