#religion

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy."

"I found your love like I found religion: in an aluminum trashcan in the middle of the Utah desert."

"If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments."

"Are there any religions on your list that include the slaughter of noblemen as a holy duty?"

"Nobody can tell what is right and what is wrong; what is righteous and what is evil. Even if there is a god and I had his teachings right before me, I would think it through and decide if that was right or wrong myself."

"I believe we are more ready to embrace our lives in the here and now when we are able to recognize the continuity between the immanence of God in our world and eternity. Rather than simply waiting to be liberated to another time or place, we are being invited to collaborate in the healing and redemption of our world."

"It is not about doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says."

"That which is impenetrable to us really exists. Behind the secrets of nature remains something subtle, intangible, and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion."

"A man must be prepared not only to be a martyr, but to be a fool. It is absurd to say that a man is ready to toil and die for his convictions if he is not even ready to wear a wreathe around his head for them."

"I believe in God the way I believe in quarks. People whose business it is to know about quantum physics or religion tell me they have good reason to believe that quarks and God exist. And they tell me that if I wanted to devote my life to learning what they've learned, I'd find quarks and God just like they did."

"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy themselves, to forget their misery, to imagine themselves, for a few minutes anyway, free and happy.-- Circular Letter to My Friends in Italy"

"... challenge the church to do better, be more of who Christ wants us to be ..."

"When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."

"Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."

"With or without religion, 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."

"It is now generally admitted, at any rate by philosophers, that the existence of a being having the attributes which define the god of any non-animistic religion cannot be demonstratively proved... [A]ll utterances about the nature of God are nonsensical."

"God save us from people who mean well."

"If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far."

"If money’s the god people worship, I’d rather go worship the devil instead."

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."