religion

"That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better."

"Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none."

"Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be."

"The kingdom of God is a crash-bang opera: the king is dramatic, demanding, and unavoidable."

"Something has got to hold it together. I'm saying my prayers to Elmer, the Greek god of glue."

"Religious people crucified the Son of God. He was not fitting to their wishes."

"The art of this poetry of love and hope which marked the mystics, lay of course in the background of shadows which marked the cloister. "Inter Vania nihil vanius est homine." Man is an imperceptible a…"

"Everything the Spirit of God does is substance, not shadow. The baseless fabric of a vision is the work of man."

"You should develop the habit of offering voluntary prayers regularly."

"How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him."

"There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets. Some worship such men as have …"

"He who becomes oblivious of God for a moment, is as good as infidel although impliedly."

"I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem…"

"The religions are delusional constructs formed around an infallible core."

"There can be no mistake more inexcusable and fatal than to doubt, disobey, or neglect the Bible."

"Jesus came into the world to reveal the whole dignity and nobility of the search for God, which is the deepest need of the human soul, and to meet the search halfway."

"For the inquisition of Final Causes is barren, and like a virgin consecrated to God produces nothing."

"I saw myself founding a religion, marching into Asia riding an elephant, a turban on my head and in my hand the new Koran that I would have composed to suit my needs."

"Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom."

"It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth."