#religion

"How dismal it is to see present day Americans yearning for the very orthodoxy that their country was founded to escape."

"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."

"There's no guarantee of disaster-free in any world religion,but love, faith and knowledge give men hope and willpower."

"Lovelessness is a huge sin in the church. The four primary personalities in the New Testament- Jesus, Paul, Peter, and John- all four of them say that love is the most important thing. But the only time love really counts is when something unlovely happens."

"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)"

"The Reformer is always right about what's wrong. However, he's often wrong about what is right."

"A lot of people come up here and they thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus. He didn't help me a bit. If it was up to him, Cesar Millan would be up here with that damn dog. So all I can say is, 'suck it, Jesus! This award is my God now'!"

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

"In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart."

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

"The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is because vampires are allergic to bullshit."

"My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."

"Not bad, not bad at all,"Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text."

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

"ugd بگذار هرکجا تنفراست بذرعشق بکارم هرکجا آزادگی هست ببخشایم وهر کجا غم هست شادی نثار کنم الهی توفیقم ده که بیش ازطلب همدلی همدلی کنم بیش از آنکه دوستم بدارند دوست بدارم زیرا در عطا کردن است که ستوده می شویم و در بخشیدن است که بخشیده می شویم"

"Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones."

"The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves."

"Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths."

"The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it."

"Religion ist nichts anderes als die Lehre davon, wie man frei von Erkenntnis gehorcht [...]."