religion

"The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."

"down with hell and heaven and all the religious fussinfinity pleased our parents one inch looks good to us"

"I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward."

"If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile."

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."

"When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal."

"وفي القرآن الكريم يقول تعالى للسيد المسيح :"أأنت قلت للناس اتخذوني وأمي إلهين"يرد المسيح:"إن كنت قلته فقد علمته "والله تعالى يعلم كل شي..ماقال المسيح ومالم يقل ..ولكن الله يعلمنا أدب الحوار..وأدب المناقشة ..أدب أن نسأل وأن ننتظر الإجابة"

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone."

"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."

"I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher."

"And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence"

"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."

"A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."

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

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

"Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on TheeAnd I'll forgive Thy great big one on me."

"I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."