religion

"... is an ontological, spiritual revolution, pointing beyond the idolatries of sexist society and sparking creative action in and toward transcendence. The becoming of women implies universal human be…"

"I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!"

"We meet here to express our deep resentment at the claim made by South Africa though its governments and parliaments since the union, to determine and shape our destiny without consulting our wishes, …"

"Faith, Quinn mused, was a strange power. They had committed their lives to the sect, never questioning its gospels. Yet in all of that time, they had the reassurance of routine… The bedrock of every r…"

"This paucity of actors on the stage reflects the liturgical roots of Greek theater, which continued to stick close to its religious origins. … machine, called the mēchanē, was a sort of crane that swu…"

"If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?"

"I see without eyes, and I hear without ears. I feel without feeling and taste without tasting. I know neither form nor measure; for without seeing I yet behold an operation so divine that the words I …"

"“Though many mortals speak with authority concerning what their Members want—“Our Father wants us to sacrifice a bullock,” “Kali demands we garrote a passerby”—the desires and demands of the gods are …"

"Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in…"

"Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity."

"But will reënforcement work the other way, also? Religion strengthens the social spirit; will the social spirit strengthen personal religion? When a minister gets hot about child labor and wage slaver…"

"It is the high priests that make demands — not the gods they serve."

"The stopwatch has stopped. It's up to God and the referee now. The referee is Pat Horan. God is God."

"The homosexuals say they are for God. Now, who are we going to believe, God or the pervert?"

"You have made me so rich, oh God, please let me share Your beauty with open hands. My life has become an uninterrupted dialogue with You, oh God, one great dialogue. At night, when I lie in my bed and…"

"All birth means separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. The return into the All, the dissolution of painful individuatio…"

"Man becomes aware of the sacred because it manifests itself, shows itself, as something wholly different from the profane. To designate the act of manifestation of the sacred, we have proposed the ter…"

"My God, I heard this guy's albums for ages and finally to be able to look at him and see how he does it!"

"Practice humility at first with man and only then before God. He who despises man, has also no respect for God."

"Ah, the giant that is Rembrandt; he's God, he's God!"