#religion

"Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible."

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

"Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee."

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

"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."

"Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."

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

"I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we dress him up in costumes that make him visible to us. Then we come up with a lot of very silly rules that we attribute to him and tell everyone if they don't follow those rules, they can't be part of the gang."

"They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet."

"Hate the sin, love the sinner."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage"

"On the Disc, the Gods aren't so much worshipped, as they are blamed."

"O Diabo, invejoso, fez o homem confundir fé com religião e amor com casamento."

"It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause"

"No it's not!"said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god.""Therefore It Is A Religious Position,"said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist Thinks Of The Gods Constantly, Albeit In Terms of Denial. Therefore, Atheism Is A Form Of Belief. If The Atheist Truly Did Not Believe, He Or She Would Not Bother To Deny."

"A fundamentalist is someone who wants to substitute what he believes for what you believe,"Max said. "And someone who thinks he knows the will of God better than anyone else."

"Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion."

"I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another."

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."[My Uncle Sosthenes]"

"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."