religion

"CONCERNED BUT NOT CONSUMED!"

"God is not interested in your art but, your heart."

"The president of the United States has claimed, on more than one occasion, to be in dialogue with God. If he said that he was talking to God through his hairdryer, this would precipitate a national emergency. I fail to see how the addition of a hairdryer makes the claim more ridiculous or offensive."

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

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."[Moral Decay (first published 1937)]"

"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?"

"Yes, the long war on Christianity. I pray that one day we may live in an America where Christians can worship freely! In broad daylight! Openly wearing the symbols of their religion... perhaps around their necks? And maybe -- dare I dream it? -- maybe one day there can be an openly Christian President. Or, perhaps, 43 of them. Consecutively."

"The difference between theism and nontheism is not whether one does or does not believe in God. . . Theism is a deep-seated conviction that there's some hand to hold: if we just do the right things, someone will appreciate us and take care of us. . . Nontheism is relaxing with the ambiguity and uncertainty of the present moment without reaching for anything to protect ourselves."

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of mad libs."

"I want to write a book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It will be exactly the same length as the Bible."

"I said to my children, 'I'm going to work and do everything that I can do to see that you get a good education. I don't ever want you to forget that there are millions of God's children who will not and cannot get a good education, and I don't want you feeling that you are better than they are. For you will never be what you ought to be until they are what they ought to be."

"You know who I pray to? Joe Pesci. Two reasons: First of all, I think he's a good actor, okay? To me, that counts. Second, he looks like a guy who can get things done. Joe Pesci doesn't fuck around. In fact, Joe Pesci came through on a couple of things that God was having trouble with."

"The faith of religion is belief on insufficient evidence."

"إن المؤمن ليدرك بحسن الخلق درجة الصائم والقائم"

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

"If God is for us, who can be against us?"

"AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world."

"قال بعض العارفين:من قرت عينه بالله قرت به كل عين ،ومن لم تقر عينه بالله تقطعت نفسه على الدنيا حسرات ،ويكفي في فضل هذه اللذة وشرفها انها تخرج من القلب ألم الحسرة على مايفوت من هذه الدنيا ، حتى انه ليتألم بأعظم مايلتذ به من أهلها ويفر منه فرارهم من المؤلم ."

"من الناس من يتخذ من المناصب الحكومية طبقات في العلم يوشك من ارتقاها مرة ألا يصعد إلية صوت ناقد"

"I'm not out to disturb anybody's faith. I happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that has a dual deity and operates on a lunar schedule. It suits my needs. If you happen to be happy and comfortable with a belief system that features a single masculine deity and operates on a solar schedule, fine. I don't give a fat damn. What matters is what you do, not who's name you do it in."