#religion

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

"There is only one religion - it is a way a man dies."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."

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

"You cannot exalt God and yourself at the same time."

"The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation."

"Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them."

"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."

"It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so."

"Every life has a destiny... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets."

"When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."

"Religion turned some folks belligerent."

"Mine was a patchwork God, sewn together from bits of rag and ribbon, Eastern and Western, pagan and Hebrew, everything but the kitchen sink and Jesus."

"For me, religion is like a rhinoceros: I don't have one, and I'd really prefer not to be trampled by yours."

"The Way is not in the sky; the Way is in the heart."

"You can have Jesus in your spirit and have an outrageous mess in your soul, and if you don't know what that's called, it's called religion."

"It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true."

"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."

"With the moon walk, the religious myth that sustained these notions could no longer be held. With our view of earthrise, we could see that the earth and the heavens were no longer divided but that the earth is in the heavens. (105)"

"Regardless of what I think about Islam or Wicca or any other religion, the fact is that it's a group of people. Every faith has its ceremonies. And since it's made up of people, every faith also has its assholes."