Religion
" God"—a word for not thinking. —Ed Abbey
No one but God and I know what is in my heart. —Arabic
Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues. —Ed Abbey
Many millions search for God, only to find Him in their hearts. —
Sikh
Working is half of religion. —Turkish
A man without religion is like a horse without a bridle. —Latin
All "isms" should be "wasms." —Abbie Hoffman
Most sects are right in what they affirm and wrong in what they deny. —Goethe
Only the deaf and the blind are obliged to believe. —Romanian No religion without courage. —Arabic
Science investigates; religion interprets. Science give man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. —Martin Luther King, Jr.
Religion has two children, love and hatred. —Russian
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed. —Henry Beecher, 19th cent
Religion destroys evil, morality merely hides it. —Welsh
God has no religion. —Mahatma Gandhi
Small is his religion who seeks daily for it. —Welsh
All conditioned things are impermanent. Work out your own salvation with diligence. —The Buddha's final words.
The best sermon is to listen to oneself. —German
Just before leaving on an European Crusade, Billy Graham was asked if he expected to bring back any new creeds with him, and if so, would he be able to get them through customs. He replied, "Oh that would be easy enough, since few of the new creeds have any duties attached to them."
The fundamental rule of the spiritual quest—to establish direct contact with the sacred rather than depend on intermediaries, authorities, dogmas, or institutions —Hymns to an Unknown God by Sam Keen
All religions will pass, but this will remain: simply sitting in a chair and looking into the distance. —V.V. Rozanov in Solitaria 1912
Rituals mend ever again worlds forever breaking apart under the 2g6 blows of usage and the slashing distinctions of language. —Roy Rappaport
Man is a Religious Animal. Man is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion—several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. —Mark Twain
Provide a religious organization with wealth and power and it begins to change into a secular agency. —Edmund A. Opitz
Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and the hate ; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward. —Planet Steward, Stephen Levine
Metaphysics is a cobweb the mind weaves around things. —Planet Steward, Stephen Levine
Questions are more likely to make good communications than dogmatic statements, which usually only create resistance, shutting the door which they were designed to force open. —Graham Howe, The Mind of the Druid
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. —George Benard Shaw
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep. —Saul Bellow
I consider myself a Hindu, Christian, Moslem, Jew, Buddhist and Confucian. —Mohandas Ghandi
To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy. —Dean William R. Inge
Modern man has not ceased to be credulous, the need to believe haunts him. —William James
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. — Albert Einstein
"Mystery" is a better word for "God" because it suggests questions, not answers. "Why" is always a good question, the one question that distinguishes us from the other brutes. —Ed Abbey, Confessions of a Barbarian
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to a man in a blind rush until it's too late. —Bene Gesserit Proverb, DUNE
The inspiration of the Bible depends upon the ignorance of the gentlemen who reads it. —Robert Ingersoll
The dogma of the infallibility of the Bible is no more self-evident than is that of the infallibility of the popes. —Thomas Henry Huxley
Don't change beliefs, change the believer. —Werner Erhart
All the religion we have is the ethics of one or another holy person. —Waldo Ralph Emerson
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practiced. —Samuel Butler
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. —Edmund Burke
Treat the other man's faith gently; it is all he has to believe in. — Henry Haskins
A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they're loaded or not. —Franklin Jones
The more fervent opponents of Christian doctrine have often enough shown a temper which, psychologically considered, in indistinguishable from religious zeal. —William James
There is something inherently ridiculous in ecumenical dialogue because in the first stage everyone says "if you would only listen to me and my confession, we would have the answer." A great many never get beyond this stage, never listen to the other peoples speeches because they are so busy writing their own and, of course, never see how funny it must appear to God or to the secularist in the world who does not see much to choose amongst any of us. —Eugene Carson Blake
All words are plastic. Word images begin to distort in the instant of utterance. Ideas embedded in a language require that particular language for expression. This is the meaning within the word exotic. See how it begins to distort? Translation squirms in the presence of the exotic. Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change. —The Stolen Journals, DUNE
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