religion

"Anderson has a gift from the gods: he could swing an orange."

"Each initiation marks the passing of a pupil in the Hall of Wisdom into a higher class, marks the clear shining forth of the inner fire and the transition from one point of polarisation to another, en…"

"Black theology cannot accept a view of God which does not represent God as being for oppressed blacks and thus against white oppressors. Living in a world of white oppressors, blacks have no time for …"

"How would you feel if your prayer requests were made public, displayed on a billboard or marquee? "Dear Lord, make me famous. Make me rich."

"Man's carnivorous nature is not taken for granted, or praised in the fundamental teachings of Judaism. The rabbis of the told that men were vegetarians in earliest times, between Creation and the gene…"

"Say not, "I have found the path of the soul." Say rather, "I have found the soul walking upon my path." For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a r…"

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! — prophet still, if bird or devil!"

"Learning to see the world as it truly is - saturated with the presence and love of God - should be the essence of Christian discipleship, or what many call spiritual formation."

"The contradictions in Renan, his feminine sensibility, coquetry, unavowed egotism, and sudden emotional outbursts, all indicate a soul deliberately using distraction as a means of evasion. The perpetu…"

"Once again, Caddrick had failed to use the few brains God had given him."

"Are you not aware that all offerings whether great or small that are brought to the gods with piety have equal value, whereas without piety, I will not say hecatombs, but, by the gods, even the Olympi…"

"For my care of this Church, the reducing of it into order, the upholding of the external worship of God in it, and the settling of it to the rules of its first reformation, are the causes of all this …"

"If you have pumped your fist at God, the good news is that you can come back into fellowship with him right this minute."

"The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man."

"People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout."

"If Christianity were true religious persecution would become a pious and charitable duty: if God designs to punish men for their opinions it would be an act of mercy to mankind to extinguish such opin…"

"f all the arts, music makes the most direct appeal to the emotions and to those shadowy, but real portions of our being called the imagination and the soul.  Emotion is as indispensible to music as lo…"

"Christians, bear your faithful ministers upon your hearts when you are wrestling with God. They can tell when they want your prayers, and when they enjoy your prayers. Did you pray more for them, they…"

"Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion."

"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand."