religion

"“God, please make me a channel of your peace.” The first line of the St. Francis prayer, popularized by Mother Teresa, bastardized by Margaret Thatcher, and cherished by those of us who have fallen th…"

"The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be."

"God made them as stubble to our swords."

"In the university of God, however brilliant you may be, you will not be given double promotion. You must take every course, because each course serves a purpose."

"Comfortless was my religion, anxiety of the anxieties, for I believed God was not love, but courage. Love came only as a reward."

"Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and daemons."

"The Great Code was a silly and sloppy book. It was also a work of very great genius. The point is that genius is not enough. A book worthy of God and of Helen must do better than that."

"“After all, the vulgar opinion of the Gentiles, touching the God Ram, is that he was produced, and came out of the Light, in the same manner as the Fringe of a Belt comes out of that Belt; and if they…"

"17 Proposition. The description of the throne of God in the fourth chapter, is not the description of the majestie of God in heaven, but of his true religion, wherein he is authorised and sits in the …"

"My arguments were beginning to sound a little strained to me, too. I was in the position of a priest trying to sell religion."

"Assuming that we would compare the nation-state to a living god, then nationalism would be the correspondent religion. In spite of some seemingly positive elements, nation-state and nationalism show m…"

"God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls."

"The best means by which a slave seeks proximity to God after recognising Him, is praying, benevolence to the parents, and abandonment of envy, self-conceit and vaunting."

"When Jesus said, "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," it was the mind that he was speaking about. The Kingdom of Heaven must begin within a mind which exists for the sake of the whole. Such a mind i…"

"Well, before you are always self—you’re always self-centered. Everything is for you. Your self is God. And we make lousy gods. Humans make lousy gods, I think. We need to let God be God and us be what…"

"The Christian belief in heaven originated after the death of Jesus with the idea that he had been taken up into heaven or exalted to the right hand of God."

"God can make good use of all that happens, but the loss is real."

"Today these taboos and terrors still linger, many of them, in the form of conventions of morality, uneasy strivings of conscience, doubts and desperations of religion; but ultimately Man will emerge f…"

"This Bible, then, has a mission, grander than any mere creation of God; for in this volume are infinite wisdom, and infinite love. Between its covers are the mind and heart of God; and they are for ma…"

"The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion, with those who practice in it regarding themselves as a priesthood."