religion

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."

"It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says."

"It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet."

"For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for."

"salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation, I want life, all of life, the miserable as well as the superb."

"The destiny of your soul is not predicated upon acceptance of a specific dogma that happens to be "correct."A loving God does not dole out eternal condemnation because one has selected the wrong doctrine or misinterpreted scripture. On the contrary, your endeavor to understand God and the nature of the universe is a testament to your devotion."

"It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ"

"Not bad, not bad at all,"Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text."

"He - and if there is a God, I am convinced he is a he, because no woman could or would ever fuck things up this badly."

"Half the people in the world think that the metaphors of their religious traditions, for example, are facts. And the other half contends that they are not facts at all. As a result we have people who consider themselves believers because they accept metaphors as facts, and we have others who classify themselves as atheists because they think religious metaphors are lies."

"I breathe in. The water will wash my wounds clean. I breathe out. My mother submerged me in water when I was a baby, to give me to God. It has been a long time since I thought about God, but I think about him now. It is only natural. I am glad, suddenly, that I shot Eric in the foot instead of the head."

"I’m an atheist and I thank God for it."

"I think it [religion] is an art, the greatest one; an extension of the communion all the other arts attempt."

"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."

"knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith"

"Never trust the translation or interpretation of something without first trusting its interpreter."

"The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him."

"If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts."

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

"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."