religion

"Be wary of insisting that you know better than God about when a prayer request should be granted. God's delays are not necessarily denials. He always has reasons for his 'not yets.'"

"Theodore Parker Church in West Roxbury, Massachusetts"

"The new always carries with it the sense of violation, of sacrilege. What is dead is sacred; what is new, that is, different, is evil, dangerous, or subversive."

"I saw St. Francis at first in his old age, at prayer and sickly, of an indescribable cheerfulness and purity and humility. Everything in him, everything that constituted his life, all his difficulties…"

"No one in my family disbelieved in religion, and no one disbelieved in evolution, either."

"No man's plenum, Mr. Quistgaard, is impervious to the awl of God's will."

"If this is indeed the alternative, we are in a tragic situation, compelled to choose between social righteousness and communion with God."

"God, you are a big, ghoulish woman. I'm talking to you, Carrot Top."

"The traveller must also give up resistance to God's decree and refrain from prayers for reward in the hereafter."

"It's harder for a man to be spiritual-minded now than it was in the early days. In those days there wasn’t anything else to do but be spiritual and try to raise a crop so you wouldn’t starve. And when…"

"This evil man has proclaimed June as the month to be proud of abominable sins against God!... God then affixed the death penalty for doing what the LGBT fags do, fornicating day and night, and what Ob…"

"Better to be always in a minority of one with God — branded as madman, incendiary, fanatic, heretic, infidel — frowned upon by "the powers that be," and mobbed by the populace — or consigned ignominio…"

"Poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!"

"As the blood of Christ is the fountain of all merit, so the Spirit is the fountain of all spiritual life; and until He quickens us, imparts the principle of divine life to our souls, we can put forth …"

"O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell"

"What is the market place? Is it the secular city? Is it the factual market place, that is to say the urban inner city? Is it suburbia where all the supermarkets are? No. The market place is simply the…"

"I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of our religion, and a man would get nearer to God by abiding by its precepts, than by any other…"

"Dennis Lehane Talks" - an August 2005 Maddux Business Report interview"

"“The Devil” is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes. This has led to so much confusion of thought that THE BEAST 666 has preferred to let names stand as they are, and to p…"

"How divine is utterance!" she said. "As we to the brutes, poets are to us."