religion

"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything."

"I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts."

"God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist."

"But I was always coming here. I though about one of my favorite Sufi poems, which says that God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are standing right now. I was never not coming here. This was never not going to happen."

"There seem to be only two kinds of people: Those who think that metaphors are facts, and those who know that they are not facts. Those who know they are not facts are what we call "atheists,"and those who think they are facts are "religious."Which group really gets the message?"

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

"religion is no longer the opium of the people but the vitamin pills of the feeble."

"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."

"The marks humans leave are too often scars."

"the church should just stay out of people's pants."

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

"When you grow up as a girl, it is like there are faint chalk lines traced approximately three inches around your entire body at all times, drawn by society and often religion and family and particularly other women, who somehow feel invested in how you behave, as if your actions reflect directly on all womanhood."

"It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing' people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money."

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy."

"There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything."

"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up ’cause they’re looking for ideas."

"Jack didn’t fully get Jesus. Audrey tried to explain it, and he could repeat it back to her, word for word, but he still didn’t comprehend most of it. The best he could gather was that Jesus lived long ago, told people to be nice, and they killed him for it. At the end, he asked who was Jesus’ necromancer and if he was in the Bible, then Kaldar couldn’t stop laughing and had to sit down."

"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"