Religion Quotes - Page 87

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

Lord, please watch over all these lost children born to chase the hurricane.

God is all that is. Since everything that exists is God, in one form or another, the only way that God can make a tree is by becoming the tree. Likewise, the way God made you was by becoming you.

It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses, Joshua, Samuel, and the Bible prophets, to come with the pretended word of God and have credit among us.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

I can never join Calvin in addressing his god. He was indeed an Atheist, which I can never be; or rather his religion was Daemonism. If ever man worshipped a false god, he did.

Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

I would rather be the offspring of two apes than be a man and afraid to face the truth.

Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.

The nation should be ruled by the Ten Commandments.

Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him, and cannot be reasoned out.

Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities.

If language is to be of any use to us, then we ought to try and preserve the meaning of words, and 'god' historically has not meant the laws of nature.

God is by definition the holder of all possible knowledge, it would be impossible for him to have faith in anything. Faith, then, is built upon ignorance and hope.

There are few pages of history which do not demonstrate that public prayer and ritual never inoculated people against mass-madness and cruelty. What is needed is emphasis on morality and manners.

Religion stands, the Church blocking the sun.

The invalid assumption that correlation implies cause is probably among the two or three most serious and common errors of human reasoning.

Atheism: the religion devoted to the worship of one's own smug sense of superiority.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place.

The lovers of God have no religion but God alone.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't believe them. The tenor of almost all apologetics literature makes it plain that this is their intent.

All of science is built on territory once occupied by gods. Is there some boundary at which science is supposed to stop?