Religion Quotes

What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?''I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

~ Stanisław Lem

Your Mercy is my social status.

~ Guru Nanak

What the new mate, sports car, or unexpected check could never do, Christ says, I Can. You'll love how he achieves it. He reconnects your soul with God.

~ Max Lucado

I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least, Nor do I understand who there can be more wonderful than myself.

~ Walt Whitman

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.

~ Richard Dawkins

That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies, I just work here.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.

~ G.k. Chesterton

The problem of vindicating an omnipotent and omniscient God in the face of evil is insurmountable. Those who claim to have surmounted it, by recourse to notions of free will and other incoherencies, have merely heaped bad philosophy onto bad ethics.

~ Sam Harris

Glory be to Him who changes others and remains Himself unchanged!

~ Anonymous

Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality. Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion. False, manhandled religion produces the opposite effect. Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and God.

~ Brennan Manning

God's will has to be done, in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.

~ Sarah Palin

But doesn't that make sense? That the infinite would be, indeed... infinite? That even the most holy amongst us would only be able to see scattered pictures of the eternal picture at any given time? And that maybe if we could collect those pieces and compare them, a story about God would begin to emerge that resembles and includes everyone?

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God.

~ Yann Martel

If man really is fashioned, more than anything else, in the image of God, then clearly it follows that there is nothing on earth so near to God as a human being. The conclusion is inescapable, that to be in the presence of even the meanest, lowest, most repulsive specimen of humanity of the world is still to be closer to God than when looking up into a starry sky or at a beautiful sunset. Certainly that is why there is nothing in the new testament about beautiful sunsets.- Mike Mason -Author of The Mystery of Marriage

~ Mike Mason

(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around them--the soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing wind--should not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

All true believers have good reasons for disbelieving in every god except their own,' said Birbal, 'and so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

~ Salman Rushdie

Religion is based on the idea that God is an imbecile.

~ Noam Chomsky

If the universe does consist of a battle between the devil and God, the final analysis should conclude that religion would have been the devil’s most brilliant move and science, God’s.

~ Steve Maraboli

Keep on the watch and pray

~ Jehovah

The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.

~ Glen Cook

All what we think and know is an illusion. Nothing exists. Everything is an opinion.

~ Ash Vaz

The Lord doesn't want anybody in His house who has to be dragged there.

~ Frank D. Gilroy

I was asked by a concerned church-goer: Is your relationship with God okay? and I answered My relationship with God is far better than yours. You have to be in a certain place, with a certain group of people, pray at certain days of the week, read the Bible at certain times of the day; all in order to have a relationship with God. But I am with God from the moment I wake up, to the moment I fall asleep at night, I am with God wherever on this earth that I wander to, and whosoever I may be with! I may be sitting on the subway, and I am with God. I can assure you that I am closer to God than you are.

~ C. Joybell C.

Радость. Долг каждого человека - взращивать свою внутреннюю радость. Но многие религии забыли это правило. Большинство храмов темны и холодны. Литургическая музыка помпезна и грустна. Священники одеваются в черное. Ритуалы прославляют пытки мучеников и соперничают в изображении жестокостей. Как если бы мучения, которые претерпели их пророки, были свидетельствами их истинности.Не является ли радость жизни лучшим способом отблагодарить Бога за его существование, если он существует? А если Бог существует, почему он должен быть мрачным существом?

~ Bernard Werber

I'm here to tell you, there ain't much forgiveness in that old-time religion. That particular savior was a mean son of a bitch. If you sinned, honey, he was going to get you, no doubt about it.

~ Ava Gardner

No more quickly can a person rob you of your joy and peace than when that individual succeeds at making you feel like you're less than worthy of God as compared to his/her own self. The old adage You're on your way to hell, and I'm on my way to heaven spoken or implied to another, is the most predominantly effective way to make someone feel better about himself; and he doesn't even have to prove he's better in this life on earth because now he can just say Wait 'til I'm looking down at you while you're in hell! But don't be robbed of your joy and peace, individuals or groups of people like that don't know where God is; He is a whisper-distance away from you, is all.

~ C. Joybell C.

The Official was bending over his desk, staring at the sergeant. May I ask you a question?Yes.Have you ever thought you were Christ?I can't say that I have. But I have considered that God was good to me to let me find what I was looking for, if that's what you mean.

~ Ray Bradbury

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood.

~ Stevie Smith

Different creeds are but different paths to reach the same God.

~ Ramakrishna

In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

You know, we can quote the written Word all day to our friends, but nothing will touch them like our own hunger and love for the Word himself. It is not dutiful love that attracts but love freely lavished from a heart familiar with the gardens of heaven.

~ Amy Layne Litzelman

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

~ Karl Rahner

Praise be to God, Who has so disposed matters that pleasant literary anecdotes may serve as an instrument for the polishing of wits and the cleansing of rust from our hearts.

~ Ahmad Al-Tifashi

All simple souls must admire and respect one another, saying: 'Let us proceed each one along our path to the same goal, united in purpose and by means of God's order which, in its great variety, is in us all.

~ Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.

~ Voltaire

S'il n'existait pas Dieu il faudrait l'inventer. (If God did not exist he would have to be invented.)

~ Voltaire

The mathematicians are the priests of the modern world.

~ Bill Gaede

Imagine a very long time passing - and I find my way out, following someone who already knows how to leave Hell. And God says to me on Earth for the first time, Xas! in a tone of discovery, as if I'm a misplaced pair of spectacles or a stray dog. And he puts it to me that he wants me in Heaven. But Lucifer has doubled back - it was him I followed - to find me, where I am, in a forest, smitten, because the Lord has noticed me, and I'm overcome, as hopeless as your dog Josie whom you got rid of because she loved me.' Xas glared at Sobran. Then he drew a breath - all had been said on only three. He went on: 'Lucifer says to God the He can't have me. And at this I sit up and tell Lucifer that I didn't even think he knew my name, then say to God no thank you - very insolent this - and that Hell is endurable so long as the books keep appearing.

~ Elizabeth Knox

In ridiculing a pathetic human fallacy, which seeks explanation where none need be sought and which multiplies unnecessary assumptions, one should not mimic primitive ontology in order to challenge it. Better to dispose of the needless assumption altogether. This holds true for everything from Noah's flood to the Holocaust.

~ Christopher Hitchens

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan-Thérèse Nyirabayovu

~ Karl Maier