#religion

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

"Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner,"than to say: "I have no need of religion."The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God."

"religion is about having the right answers, and some of their answers are right... but i am about the process that takes you to the living answer... it will change you from the inside. there are a lot of smart people who are able to say a lot of right things from their brain because they have been told what the right answers are, but they don't know me at all."

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

"Isn't wine prohibited here?"the boy asked. "It's not what enters men's mouths that's evil,"said the alchemist. "It's what comes out of their mouths that is."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."

"Humans are strange. … They value punishment because they think it means their actions are important—that they are important. … it's vanity."

"...evolution is not a religious tenet, to which one swears allegiance or belief as a matter of faith.. It is a factual reality of the empirical world. Just as one would not say 'I believe in gravity,"one should not proclaim 'I believe in evolution."

"Reflection is the lamp of the heart. If it departs, the heart will have no light."

"Spiritual pain is when you can’t stand another moment not knowing the real truth, and when you finally do know you can’t let go."

"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie."

"He who does not reflect his life back to God in gratitude does not know himself."

"I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed."

"An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said.An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated."

"I don't deserve a soul, yet I still have one. I know because it hurts."

"The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."

"A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity."

"Who knew that the devil had a factory where he made millions of fossils, which his minions distributed throughout the earth, in order to confuse my tiny brain?"

"Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."

"A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."