religion

"If my name were C. Ross, I’d definitely be religious."

"'Shoot the wounded... what we do to people who are the most vulnerable... we 'shoot the wounded.' As if they haven't suffered enough, we add to it by gossiping and treating hurt people like outcasts."..."I think we killed Ronnie's spirit... Instead of coming alongside her and supporting her through this, I failed her..."

"I won't put my ignorance on an altar and call it God. It feels like idolatry, like the worst kind of idolatry."

"What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us."

"I don't belive in God. I believe in...Al Pacino."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."

"Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, 'Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!'"

"I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic"

"Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity."

"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."

"Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time."

"It's a lazy Saturday afternoon, there's a couple lying naked in bed reading Encyclopediea Brittannica to each other, and arguing about whether the Andromeda Galaxy is more 'numinous' than the Ressurection. Do they know how to have a good time, or don't they?"

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

"He who has rejected his demons badgers us to death with his angels"

"I felt an overwhelming gratitude in my life right now and wanted a chance to acknowledge it. I felt that any thanks given to any god all went to the same place, anyway, no matter what religion you were centered in."

"To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means."

"أين أنت؛ والطريقطريق تعب فيه آدم، وناح لأجله نوح، ورمي في النار الخليل، وأضجع للذبح إسماعيل، وبيع يوسف بثمن بخس ولبث في السجن بضع سنين، ونشر بالمنشار زكريا، وذبح السيد الحصور يحيى، وقاسى الضر أيوب، وزاد على المقدار بكاء داود، وسار مع الوحش عيسى، وعالج الفقر وأنواع الأذى محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم؛ تُزهى أنت باللهو واللعب؟!"

"وتجديد الإسلام ليس نقل الدين من مكانه إلى حيث يهوى الناس، بل نقل الناس من نطاق أهوائهم إلى حيث يرضى الله"

"We are not worshipping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with creation."