#religion

"God is as real as a station wagon."

"I liked the humor of it, I've always enjoyed a sense of humor in God and in religion and in spirituality."

"Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular."

"Science adjusts its views based on what's observedFaith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved."

"... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ..."

"The figures looked more or less human. And they were engaged in religion. You could tell by the knives (it's not murder if you do it for a god)."

"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried."

"If all men are made in God's reflection, then why do some people continue to acknowledge only what is in their part of the mirror? If every man was created equal and in the image of God, then how can any man claim that one race is better than another?"

"I have found God, but he is insufficient."

"The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society."

"Do what you do only for God's sake, start for God's sake, work for God's sake, and act within the sphere of God's good approval."

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood."

"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."

"Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

"No religion is perfect, not after man gets through with it."

"If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

"Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything."

"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."

"My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That’s enough, I myself choose my way"

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