#religion

"Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."

"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?"

"To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?"

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

"The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."

"Yoga is the art work of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul."

"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."

"If we submit everything to reason our religion will be left with nothing mysterious or supernatural. If we offend the principles of reason our religion will be absurd and ridiculous . . . There are two equally dangerous extremes: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason."

"It is in your hands to make life miserable or happy. No religion, spiritual leaders or knowledge will ever make you fully satisfied."

"Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?"

"If the Creator stood before a million men with the light of a million lamps, only a few would truly see him because truth is already alive in their hearts. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them. He who does not have Truth in his heart, will always be blind to it."

"the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life."

"For this reason I tell you: When you pray and ask for something, believe that you have received it, and you will be given whatever you ask for."

"The split in America, rather than simply economic, is between those who embrace reason, who function in the real world of cause and effect, and those who, numbed by isolation and despair, now seek meaning in a mythical world of intuition, a world that is no longer reality-based, a world of magic."

"Men die in battle; women die in childbirth."

"მე მომხრე ვარ, რომ სკოლაში ისწავლებოდეს რელიგიის ისტორია საერთოდ. მაგრამ არა ქრისტიანობის ისტორია გამოყოფით. რელიგიის ისტორიის სწავლება ჩემთვის ნიშნავს ყველა დიდი რელიგიის -ქრისტიანობის, ისლამის, იუდაიზმის, ბუდიზმის - ძირეულ დებულებათა შედარებით შესწავლას."

"I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."

"Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!"

"I had failed to make a gift of myself to God."

"He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all."