#religion

"Tie me up, please..."Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands—he had to comply.A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest—Brett could hardly contain his elation."

"How do you know it's not true if you don't believe in it?"

"For the wages of sin is Death, but the gift of God is everlasting Life in Christ Jesus or LORD."

"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."

"Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun."

"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."

"Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers."

"And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his?"

"God is a concept by which we measure our pain."

"I think it is safe to say that while the South is hardly Christ-centered, it is most certainly Christ-haunted."

"لا تستهين بنفسك ، حتى لو كنت قطرة ، محاولاتك المستمرة .. بصبر تستطيع أن تفتت الصخر"

"What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."

"Verily, knowledge is a lock and its key is the question."

"Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.-"

"I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.'Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil."

"Science, like art, religion, commerce, warfare, and even sleep, is based on presuppositions."

"Faith is believing in something you know isn't true."

"The idea of God, infinity, or spirit stands for the possible attempt at an impossible conception."

"Some people want to see God with their eyes as they see a cow, and to love Him as they love a cow - for the milk and cheese and profit it brings them. This is how it is with people who love God for the sake of outward wealth or inward comfort. They do not rightly love God, when they love Him for their own advantage."

"The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."