#religion

"I believe that people who are devoutly religious, within any specific religion, have no true respect for the ultimate vastness that is God."

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day."

"I wore black because I liked it. I still do, and wearing it still means something to me. It's still my symbol of rebellion -- against a stagnant status quo, against our hypocritical houses of God, against people whose minds are closed to others' ideas."

"Your least favorite virtue, or nominee for the most overrated one? Faith. Closely followed—in view of the overall shortage of time—by patience."

"Don't go taking that gospel stuff seriously. It's nice to clean you out now and then, but it ain't for real. It's like bad whiskey. Run through you fast and leave you with pain."

"Your friends can be double-edged knife thy can either nurture you or destroy you. Choose them Wisely......"

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible."

"We can either emphasize those aspects of our traditions, religious or secular, that speak of hatred, exclusion, and suspicion or work with those that stress the interdependence and equality of all human beings. The choice is yours. (22)"

"All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words."

"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."

"We hold the future still timidly, but perceive it for the first time as a function of our own action."

"You are one woman in an endless line of women who were chosen to love more passionately than others, be committed to justice more fervently than others, and seek our Maker’s higher expressions more reflectively than others."

"Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

"But to mean it when I say that I want my life to count for His glory is to drive a stake through the heart of self - a painful and determined dying to me that must be a part of every day I live."

"Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things.But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."

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

"There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it."

"One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it."

"We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence."

"Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is that a god's idea of amusement is Snakes and Ladders with greased rungs."