religion

"We are as gods and might as well get good at it."

"In so far as men believed that the traditional ceremonial was what God wanted of them, they would be indifferent to the reformation of social ethics. If the hydraulic force of religion could be turned…"

"For me, there are two kinds of women — goddesses and doormats."

"God says in Jeremiah 16 — "Behold I will bring them the Jewish people again unto their land that I gave unto their fathers" — that would be Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - "Behold I will send for many fish…"

"It is the obligation of Westboro Baptist Church to put the cup of God's fury to America's lips, and cause America to drink it. And you will drink it!"

"A true prayer and religious reconciling of ourselves to Almighty God cannot enter into an impure soul, subject at the very time to the dominion of Satan. He who calls God to his assistance whilst in a…"

"It is the will of God, and we must submit; but I call my God to witness that I have done all that in me lay to save the city, utterly desperate as I knew the attempt to be. When I took in hand the def…"

"I've got a lot of experience with eating and with fasting. Part of the reason people fast, especially in a spiritual and religious context, is to understand that you don't need food as much as you thi…"

"The Postulates of Mathematics Were Not on the Stone Tablets that Moses Brought Down from Mt. Sinai."

"It is a severe Rebuke upon us, that God makes us so many Allowances, and we make so few to our Neighbor: As if Charity had nothing to do with Religion; Or Love with Faith, that ought to work by it."

"I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary."

"Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called, and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men."

"God in His infinite grandeur without any quantity and absolutely indivisible, which we call immensity, is necessarily all in every extension or space or place which exists or can be imagined."

"The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius, tr. R. C. Seaton with parallel Greek text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive"

"Oh the crap that lies lurking in the English soul. Somewhere it, the English soul, received an injection of romanticism which nearly killed it."

"Every profession in which woman's soul comes into its own and which can be formed by woman's soul is an authentic woman's profession."

"I give thanks to God for the presence and help of cardinal Ratzinger, who is a trusted friend."

"We must not close with Christ because we feel Him, but because God lias said it, and we must take God's word even in the dark."

"What cannot be emphasized enough is that there is nothing to be said for presenting 'the Islamic view' ... as though there exists one view which is shared by all Muslims. All religions contain a varie…"

"On Saturday night, I would see men lusting after half-naked girls dancing at the carnival, and on Sunday morning when I was playing organ for tent-show evangelists at the other end of the carnival lot…"