religion

"The straight line belongs to Man. The curved line belongs to God."

"U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council"

"But it was impossible to remain so long in the company of a female, even a divine one, without suffering some form of disillusionment."

"Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way, you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Everybody needs that."

"Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute hi…"

"Ramallah is not Auschwitz. Israel is not the Third Reich. We have no death camps and we haven't massacred one third of the Palestinian population in gas chambers. Therefore, everything we do is quite …"

"You young maidens, too long constrained by a fanciful Virtue's absurd and dangerous bonds and by those of a disgusting religion, imitate the fiery Eugénie; be as quick as she to destroy, to spurn all …"

"Whether the temple was destroyed by Mohammed Ghori in 1194, or by Babar, or by a ruler in between these two, or even by more than one of them , this all makes no difference to the facts pertinent for …"

"Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only."

"There may have been times when I wondered if there might be a God, but it always seemed to me wildly implausible that a God worth worshipping could allow the Holocaust to occur."

"God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said."

"The Great Beast is the only object of idolatry, the only ersatz of God, the only imitation of something which is infinitely far from me and which is I myself."

"I always figured that once I wrapped a film, then anything beyond that is none of my business. If I can avoid seeing the final product, then all I have in my head is feeling good about the experience."

"Most of the world’s believers reject these claims as blatantly false. But that’s only because these three religions are fairly new. They were founded in the last two centuries, and we see their origin…"

"1688. God sends Meat, and the Devil sends Cooks."

"Andrew Lang, The Making of Religion, Longmans, Green and Co., 1909."

"Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet the angel must hang!"

"Daniel was in the greatest credit amongst the Jews, till the reign of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. And to reject his prophecies, is to reject the Christian religion. For this religion is founded upon hi…"

"根据佛教信仰，一场必然发生。一场反抗视宗教信仰为敌人的越南共产主义者的战争。（According to Buddhist religion, there must be a war. A war against the Vietnamese Communists who consider religion their enemy.）"

"There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lightning, hideous pl…"