religion

"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to …"

"JG: Can I ask what your feelings are about God?"

"It was the laughter of the Elder Gods observing their creature man and noting their omissions, miscalculations and mistakes."

"In Thomas's creation nothing intervened between God and his world The intermediate Universals,— the secondary causes,— vanish as causes; they are, at most, sequences or relations; all merge in one uni…"

"One human thought alone is worth more than the entire world, hence God alone is worthy of it."

"God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us...Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that p…"

"I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive."

"Diary entry , after hearing that doctors had removed a benign tumor from Randolph Churchill."

"I think of religions as franchise operations. Like chicken franchise operations. But that doesn't mean there's no chicken, right?"

"To dispose a soul to action we must upset its equilibrium."

"God is not simply power, as most people were inclined to think. God is love, and he manifests himself in the dialectics of an impotent love. ... The emperor is not God. Jesus desacralizes that kind of…"

"The more popular a religion becomes, the less likely its adherents are to practise its highest precepts."

"There is no happiness comparable to a complete submergence of self into the glory of God."

"Seemeth it nothing to you, never to accuse, never to blame either God or Man? to wear ever the same countenance in going forth as in coming in? This was the secret of Socrates: yet he never said that …"

"The Spiritual Side of Samuel Richardson: Mysticism, Behmenism and Millenarianism in an Eighteenth–Century English Novelist by Gerda J. Joling–van der Sar"

"Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity."

"The Hellenic religion does not yet prosper as I desire, and it is the fault of those who profess it; for the worship of the gods is on a splendid and magnificent scale, surpassing every prayer and eve…"

"The significance of God, cause, number, substance or soul consists, as James asserts, in nothing but the tendency of the given concept to make us act or think. If the world should reach a point at whi…"

"The South needs to retire the conventional civic religion here, which is anti-Japanese pan-Korean nationalism in favor of a collective identification with constitutional principles."

"Either God is a Mystery or He is nothing at all."