religion

"I liked to go at night when I thought there was a better chance of finding a fight. I was always looking for a fight. I had not known I was capable of such rage. I knew I had been cheated of a future,…"

"If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts."

"If they be dead, as I can no longer doubt, we must submit to the will of God and trust in His divine Providence, that He who has given the blood of His only Son to maintain His Church will do nothing …"

"Where God hath a temple, the Devil will have a chapel."

"Our age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies, histories, and criticism. The foregoing generation beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes.…"

"My God, what am I doing here? It's weird. How do you get to the Met? Money! Lots and lots of money! I can imagine Pavarotti next door at the improv going, "Two Jews walk into a bar..."

"We must forget ourselves and all self-interest, and listen, and be attentive to God."

"God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself."

"We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of …"

"For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt."

"Accumulate, accumulate! That is Moses and the prophets!"

"God has not given to mankind more gracious gift than patience and gnosis ."

"Atlas, the man who carries the world, becomes the book of the maps of the world. An example of man, or God, into book. Few have that honour."

"Hitchens: I've got another question for you, which is this: How many religions in the world do you believe to be false?"

"Let's break free from artificial relationships with unfeeling, uncaring, unloving institutions that cannot contain the unpredictable wind of God's Spirit, and focus instead on building soulish connect…"

"Whenever the time of each prayer arrives, an Angel announces to the people: Stand up and extinguish, with prayers, the fire which you have set alight for yourselves."

"A missionary may persuade a painted savage to worship a cross rather than an idol; but he will not make laws that send that savage’s children to school, where they might learn to make the desert they …"

"The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have power to wake it. Hell ain't half full."

"To us Germans everything is religion. What we do we do not merely with our hands and brains, but with our hearts and souls. This has often become a tragic fate for us."

"I don't really see a conflict between the church and the movies, the sacred and the profane...there are major differences, but I could also see great similarities...Both are places for people to come …"