#religion

"…Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I don't know what will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity. We're more popular than Jesus now. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."

"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."

"She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."

"Liberty a word without which all other words are vain."

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire."

"There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."

"A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him."

"When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some."

"Religion is like a pair of shoes.....Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes."

"A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people's hope."

"I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it."

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

"The thought manifests the word;The word manifests the deed;The deed develops into habit;And habit hardens into character;So watch the thought and its ways with care,And let them spring forth from loveBorn out of compassion for all beings.As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become."

"Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do."

"I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things."

"People are never so completely and enthusiastically evil as when they act out of religious conviction."

"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."

"Be careful what you wish for. You never know who will be listening."

"It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."