religion

"Living in a world such as this is like dancing on a live volcano."

"The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."

"It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."

"Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion."

"Change is not what we expect from religious people. They tend to love the past more than the present or the future."

"Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen."

"So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name.The problem’s name is God."

"What we do in every other area of our lives (other than religion), is, rather than respect somebody's beliefs, we evaluate their reasons."

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

"Faith is not so much something we believe; faith is something we live."

"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."

"God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."

"No woman wants to be in submission to a man who isn't in submission to God!"

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."

"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."

"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."

"One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."

"Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."

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

"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over."