religion

"Many times, God speaks blessing and breakthrough through pain and disappointment."

"Few philosophers have been so mythologised as the 17th century Jew, Baruch Spinoza. Legends abound regarding his life, thought and character. He has been claimed as hero and as villain by both secular…"

"Dispatch is the soul of business."

"Most sermons sound to me like commercials — but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product."

"My patriotism is subservient to my religion. I cling to India like a child to its mother’s breast, because I feel that she gives me the spiritual nourishment I need. She has the environment that respo…"

"Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God…"

"It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work, secti…"

"Goblins didn’t pray. They had no use for gods, a disinterest matched only by the gods’ disdain for goblins."

"There have been other Priests perhaps equally notable, in calmer times, for doing faithfully the office of a Leader of Worship; bringing down, by faithful heroism in that kind, a light from Heaven int…"

"God's service in this name is the service of God's house, and therefore they are convertible. And who sees not, that whosoever ministers to the poor, ministers to God ? As it appears in that solemn se…"

"How does a country get away with keeping half its population in beekeeper suits? I'll tell you how. They say the magic word: religion. It's their religion. You say religion, you can get away with anyt…"

"Now THERE'S a hollow state to be in, isn't it — to believe in God and get no sign that He's there."

"I think I have fairly heard and fairly weighed the evidence on both sides, and I remain an utter disbeliever in almost all that you consider the most sacred truths I can see much to admire in all reli…"

"Accustom your soul after divinity, to conceive something great of itself."

"Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself."

"It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul."

"Whereas "false stories" can be told anywhere and at any time, myths must not be recited except during a period of sacred time .... This custom has survived even among peoples who have passed beyond th…"

"While you can’t keep fear from visiting, you can slam the door in its face. With God’s promise in your hand, that’s exactly what you are able to do."

"My father was an atheist and he always described himself as a Serb. Okay, maybe we were Muslim for 250 years, but we were orthodox before that and deep down we were always Serbs, religion cannot chang…"

"But how do you get rid of a god? Is there any religion where they teach you that? How to get your god off your back if he gets too damned obnoxious? No. All you ever get is advice on how to bribe them…"