#religion

"those who have loved are those that have found God"

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

"Even when God seemed to have abandoned me, he was watching. Even when he seemed indifferent to my suffering, he was watching. And when I was beyond all hope of saving, he gave me rest. Then he gave me a sign to continue my journey."

"Amendment to live by-J.O.Y.Jesus first, Others second, Yourself last."

"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."

"God, come down, if you're really there -Well, you're the one who claims to care!"

"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."

"It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very acceptable to the controversial spirit of the schoolmen, which, in the absence of all real knowledge, spent its energy upon mere formulas and words, and that it would be eagerly adopted even in its mutilated Arabian form, and presently established as the centre of all knowledge."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love."

"Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy."

"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."

"Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them."

"Like when you sit in front of a fire in winter — you are just there in front of the fire. You don't have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you."

"If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect."

"All this twaddle, the existence of God, atheism, determinism, liberation, societies, death, etc., are pieces of a chess game called language, and they are amusing only if one does not preoccupy oneself with 'winning or losing this game of chess."

"Please do not ever think I am without you or you are without me, I live with you all the time."

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"

"There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over."

"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it."(Letter to Étienne Noël Damilaville, May 16, 1767)"