#religion

"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?"

"Don't tell anyone, but on the pagan day of the sun god Ra, I kneel at the foot of an ancient instrument of torture and consume ritualistic symbols of blood and flesh. ...And if any of you care to join me, come to the Harvard chapel on Sunday, kneel beneath the crucifix, and take Holy Communion."

"I did not marry the first girl that I fell in love with, because there was a tremendous religious conflict, at the time. She was an atheist, and I was an agnostic."

"All religions are based on obsolete terminology."

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

"Fear is to begin with the end in mind. There is no end. Life is eternal. Live life knowing that the end was your past, and the future is only full of beautiful beginnings through an eternity built around God’s love."

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

"God is the supreme uncreated light of which Wisdom is born, but there was never a time when God's Wisdom did not exist."

"In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs."

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

"It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing."

"Religious people fear hell -- Spiritual people have walked thru it."

"What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement."

"People are not being reached in the context of the body of Christ--they're like newborn babies being left on a doorstep somewhere to feed and care for themselves."

"Most world religions denounced war as a barbaric waste of human life. We treasured the teachings of these religions so dearly that we frequently had to wage war in order to impose them on other people."

"Be courageous and He shall strengthen your heart, all of you who hope in the Lord."

"You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,"said the Lion."

"As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new."

"He was a wise man who invented God."

"Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?"