#religion

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

"Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."

"Aim at Heaven and you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither."

"Faith in God is an opening up, a letting go, a deep trust, a free act of love - but sometimes it was so hard to love."

"I prefer a world with many beliefs and religions.It stimulates my faith to keep growing day by day."

"Sin is a gravitation."

"The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever."

"It is a better world. A place where we ate responsible for our actions, where we can be kind to one another because we want to and becauseit is the right thing to do instead of being frightened into behaving by the threat of divine punishment."

"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."

"As every inquiry which regards religion is of the utmost importance, there are two questions in particular which challenge our attention, to wit, that concerning its foundation in reason, and that concerning it origin in human nature."

"Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."

"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."

"Many of us saw religion as harmless nonsense. Beliefs might lack all supporting evidence but, we thought, if people needed a crutch for consolation, where's the harm? September 11th changed all that."

"Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life."

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

"Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego."

"I am serving the purpose for which I was designed, therefore I am satisfied with my existence."

"There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation."

"I’m such an alcoholic that I go to church just for communion."

"The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the tree of knowledge. The subtext is, 'All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."