Religion Quotes

"Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith."

"Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves."

"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass."

"Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'"

"Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood."

"Everyone is as God made him, and often a great deal worse."

"There are few men who durst publish to the world the prayers they make to God."

"Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not."

"Sincerity is the way to heaven."

"A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke."

"It is not talking but walking that will bring us to heaven."

"My wife is my soul mate. I can't imagine being without her."

"Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all."

"A mighty fortress is our God, A bulwark never failing."

"The voice of God, if you must know, is Aretha Franklin's."

"I know for a fact that Heaven and Hell are here on Earth."

"I am really quite close, I am very close, to the cutting edge in AI and it scares the hell out of me."

"Literature is a way to explore the darkest corners of the human soul without being consumed by them."

"The unquiet republic of the maze Of planets, struggling fierce towards heaven's free wilderness."

"There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while."

"I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: 'Oh my God, what a blessing.' Then you realise it's important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe."

"I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church."

"You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest."

"Is letting our children watch TV a form of child abuse? If our children grow up knowing everything about Britney Spears and nothing about nature or faith, about anything, is that not a form of child abuse?"

"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

"I have a 2-year-old son, and I know I'm dealing with a big, grand word when I can't point to the thing when I define it. Right? If he wants to know what a chair is, I can point to the chair. If he wants to know what religion is, I can't point to anything in particular. The same is true of the state."

"Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence."

"For Mitt Romney, the complex question of anti-Mormon bias boils down to the practical matter of how he can make it go away. Facing a traditional American anti-Catholicism, John F. Kennedy gave a speech during the 1960 presidential campaign declaring his private religion irrelevant to his qualifications for public office."

"I once had a dream and this one familiar god, who was probably one of my master teachers, said, 'You should not worry about being on the charts. That's not important.'"

"When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself."

"People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior."

"A lot of people don't know the first time I was ever on national television I was a 'Soul Train' dancer."

"Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders."

"The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God."

"There is no religion that was founded on intolerance - and no religion that does not value the sanctity of human life."

"Whether religion is man-made is a question for philosophers or theologians. But the forms are man-made. They are a human response to something. As a historian of religions, I am interested in those expressions."

"The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth."

"Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty - by ceasing to exist."

"Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved."

"I wrote a graphic novel called 'Soul Stealer' with big, beautiful, epic artwork by Chris Shy. It grew into a trilogy."

"Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door."

"Divine desperateness is the beginning of spiritual awakening because it gives rise to the aspiration for God-realisation."

"The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think."

"I was so astonished that another had penetrated so deeply into the secrets of my soul, and that he knew what I did not know myself, that when I recovered from it he had already been long upon the street."

"Yes, now I understood for the first time that my soul was not so poor and empty as it had seemed to me, and that it had been only the sun that was lacking to open all its germs, and buds to the light."

"'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil."

"If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not of God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident."

"The will is a beast of burden. If God mounts it, it wishes and goes as God wills; if Satan mounts it, it wishes and goes as Satan wills; Nor can it choose its rider... the riders contend for its possession."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

"If God creates a world of particles and waves, dancing in obedience to mathematical and physical laws, who are we to say that he cannot make use of those laws to cover the surface of a small planet with living creatures?"