religion

"When I get to the otherside, I shall tell God Almighty about West Virginia!"

"That large utterance of the early gods!"

"I will frankly confess that I was convinced that God had ordained me to do certain things for the service of my nation, things that perhaps could not be done by anyone else. In whatever I have done an…"

"The difference between that which is ascribed to God and that which is ascribed to man is expressed in the words... "And your ways are not my ways."

"You do not so act as to avoid Hell and enter Heaven."

"23 Proposition. The Whoore, who in the Revelation is Stiled Spirituall Babylon, is not reallie Babylon, but the verie present Citie of Rome."

"You shall have atheists strive to get disciples, as it fareth with other sects. And, which is most of all, you shall have of them, that will suffer for atheism, and not recant; whereas if they did tru…"

"Allow the power of the soul to grow as flagrant as the power of sex."

"Theater is a service where the god keeps changing…Sometimes it’s the actor. Sometimes it’s the director. Sometimes it’s the stage manager. Sometimes, but almost never, it’s the playwright."

"“They accepted warriors...” he emphasized, “...That divinely mad type that’s so valuable when needed, and such a problem when it’s not."

"I want to say that killing for God is not only hideous murder — it is also utterly ridiculous."

"Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close …"

"God shewed three degrees of bliss that every soul shall have in Heaven that willingly hath served God in any degree in earth. The first is the worshipful thanks of our Lord God that he shall receive w…"

"The Holy Spirit of God dwelling in us, knowing our wants better than we, Himself pleads in our prayers, raising us to higher and holier desires than we can express in words, which can only find uttera…"

"The question I get asked by religious people all the time is, without God, what’s to stop me from raping all I want? And my answer is: I do rape all I want. And the amount I want is zero. And I do mur…"

"Summary, analysis, and important quotes from "Sweat" and "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

"If I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned — if I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods, who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand a…"

"To ascertain the Lord's will we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us…"

"Body and soul: a horse harnessed beside an ox."

"All religions are human attempts to find God. But they all have this in common: they have all gone astray in the fog and have not been able to discover God."