religion

"Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more o…"

"The Prayer of the Frog Called into Question" in The Ecumenical Review"

"So she drank to the point of suicide, because a life which not only lacked love, but couldn't even catch a little indifference, like a net to contain air, was intolerable; because she hadn't a single …"

"What price an immortal soul, when booty beckons?"

"Destiny or gods or fortune—whatever one is pleased or innocent enough to call them—they seal men to their decree."

"Before that kãfir was executed this recluse had seen in a dream that the reigning king had smashed the skull of idolatry. Indeed, he was a great idolater, and the leader of the idolaters, and the chie…"

"God, or somebody, what is it with terrible things? If you made this world why not a better one?"

"Our own happiness, and that of our species, are assumed to be so pre-eminent that we sacrifice without hesitancy the most sacred interests of others, in order that our own may be carefully provided fo…"

"What is the spiritual battle? Well, the soul is a garden divided into two parts. On one half are planted thorny bushes, and on the other half flowers. We also have a water pump with two taps and two c…"

"Empires come and go; so do ideologies and even religions, but war marches on through it all."

"Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world."

"The power of God can be detected neither in the world of nature nor in the souls of men. It must not be confounded with any high, exalted, force, known or knowable."

"What hath God wrought?"

"I don't want my image to appear in the mass media, since it would detract from the project."

"I would like to thank Jeff Wald because he makes my success possible, and I would like to thank God because She makes everything possible."

"I may be the star, but you are the heavens."

"Until 1989, there was a complete consensus in all sources which spoke out on the matter, viz. that the Babri Masjid had been built in forcible replacement of a Hindu temple."

"We can't have gay marriage 'cause marriage is sacred, it happens in the church. Marriage is sacred, it's sacred. No, it's not, not in America, not in a country that watches Who Wants to Marry a Millio…"

"Likewise, divine goodness granted me, afterward, the grace that from two there was made one, because I could not will anything except as he himself willed. How great is the mercy of the one who realiz…"

"Your great employment is to bring the individual souls of men to Christ."