5.10.12

Kutipan (Quote) - Religion (2)

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.
Arthur C. Clarke

Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

If the grandfather of the grandfather of Jesus had known what was hidden within him, he would have stood humble and awe-struck before his soul.
Khalil Gibran

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw

We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
Henry Ward Beecher

A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society.
Joseph Ratzinger

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
Douglas Adams

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William Blake

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
Robert A. Heinlein

One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
Robert A. Heinlein

The Bible is literature, not dogma.
George Santayana

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

We are punished by our sins, not for them.
Elbert Hubbard

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.
Alexander Chase

The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs.
Bill Maher

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.
Bill Maher

When lip service to some mysterious deity permits bestiality on Wednesday and absolution on Sunday, cash me out.
Frank Sinatra

My life was changed in one breath from God.
Donna Summer

Muslims must believe that all power, success and victory comes from God alone.
Abu Bakar Bashir

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
Gary North

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure.
Robert Browning

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.
John Clayton

I was raised Catholic, but my father's people were Methodist, so we went to both churches.
Aaron Neville

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Louis Kronenberger

The Sabbath is a weekly cathedral raised up in my dining room, in my family, in my heart.
Anita Diament

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
Orson Pratt

Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.
George A. Smith

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
John Morley

Krishna children were taught that in the spiritual world there were no parents, only souls and hence this justified their being kept out of view from others, cloistered in separate buildings and sheltered from the evil material world.
Mary Garden

Our Father and Our God, unto thee, O Lord we lift our souls.
William Pennington

Religion is the idol of the mob; it adores everything it does not understand.
Frederick II

Recounting of a life story, a mind thinking aloud leads one inevitably to the consideration of problems which are no longer psychological but spiritual.
Paul Tournier

If I had been the Virgin Mary, I would have said "No."
Margaret Smith

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